PERFORMING ARTS

Showing 11-20 of 37 titles.
Sort by:

Theatre and (Im)migration

Theatre and (Im)migration shines a light on the impact immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures ...

The Hotel

By (author) Robert A. Davidson
Categories: Urban communities

The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy. ” By examining the various ways in which the hotel is manifested in art, photography, and film, ...

Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990

This work is both a heavily annotated collection of the reports Stan Brakhage did on the Telluride Film Festival for the magazine Rolling Stock and an analysis of his work that attempts to place his singular ...

The Science of Orphan Black

An official guide to the science in the hit TV show Orphan Black by science writers Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth, featuring exclusive insights from co-creator Graeme Manson and science consultant Cosima ...

The Canadian Horror Film

From the cheaply made “tax-shelter” films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary “eco-horror,” Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and André ...

Reverse Shots

From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, ...

Cinephemera

What do digital platforms mean for cinema studies in Canada? In an era when digital media are proliferating and thousands upon thousands of clips are available online, it seems counter-intuitive to say ...

Two Bicycles

By (author) Jerry White
Categories: Performing Arts
Series: Film and Media Studies

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted specifically ...

Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s

By (author) David L. Pike
Categories: Films, cinema

Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, ...

Reel Time

In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argue that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century ...