Cultural and media studies

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Lost Feast

For readers of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain comes an entertaining yet scholarly book about the foods we have loved to death. From passenger pigeons to megafauna, Newman identifies certain foods ...

Recasting History

By (author) Monica MacDonald
Categories: Media studies

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history. Yet, until now, there have been no comprehensive accounts of Canadian history on television. ...

VIVA MAC

By (author) Andrea Benoit
Categories: Media studies

The first cultural history of the iconic brand M·A·C Cosmetics, VIVA M·A·C charts the evolution of M·A·C’s revolutionary corporate philanthropy around HIV/AIDS awareness. Drawing upon exclusive ...

Words Have a Past

By (author) Jane Griffith
Categories: Media studies

For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial ...

Canada’s Official Languages

Canada’s official languages legislation fundamentally altered the composition and operational considerations of federal institutions. With legislative change, Canada’s public service has achieved ...

Le Canada, une culture de métissage/Transcultural Canada

By (author) Paul Duncan Morris
Categories: Cultural studies

En s’inspirant de la ville de Winnipeg – lieu paradigmatique de la confluence des cultures autochtone, francophone, allophone et anglophone au Canada –, les auteurs de ce recueil s’interrogent ...

Symbols of Canada

From Timbits to totem poles, Canada is boiled down to its syrupy core in symbolic forms that are reproduced not only on t-shirts, television, and tattoos but in classrooms, museums, and courtrooms too. ...

La communication de crise à l'ère des médias socionumériques

Le présent ouvrage s’attache à examiner les tendances communicationnelles à l’ère des bad buzz, des situations de communication sensibles et des polémiques dans les médias socionumériques. ...

Eat the Beetles!

Eat the Beetles! is an evolutionary, ecological, and cultural exploration of our conflicted relationship with having insects on the dinner plate. Epidemiologist, veterinarian, and The Origin of Feces ...

The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat

Growing up in a household of food-loving Italian-Americans, Marissa Landrigan was always a black sheep—she barely knew how to boil water for pasta. But at college, she thought she’d found her purpose. ...