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“david clandfield”

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  • Canadian Film

    Perspectives on Canadian Culture

    by David Clandfield ...
    Canadian Film is a historical overview of film in both English and French Canada, from its early use to encourage immigration and, in Quebec, to promote traditional fidelities, to its struggles to project a uniquely Canadian identity and experience. All major modes of film are discussed—the documentary tradition from the NFBs wartime production to the award winners of the eighties, fictional film ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • The History of Canada Series: The Best Place To Be

    Expo '67 And Its Time

    by John Lownsbrough ...
    Series series History of Canada
    A pivotal event in Canada’s history For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world's fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and newfound sense of confidence many felt during Canada's centennial. It becomes clearer, though, as its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Arrival

    The Story of CanLit

    by Nick Mount, 3M National Teaching Fellowship ...
    “The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” — Winnipeg Free PressA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookNational Post 99 Best Books of the YearIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an ... Read more

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  • 1000 Questions About Canada

    Places, People, Things and Ideas, A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture

    by John Robert Colombo ...
    What are "snow worms"?Are there more moose than people in the Yukon?What is the meaning of the word "Niagara"?Where will you find the world’s largest perogy?Does Elvis have a street in Ottawa named after him?What was Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s favourite snack food?Which province was the last to shift traffic from the left-hand side of the road to the right?These are some of the questions that are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to adapt and grow as new technologies and viewing platforms become available, and remains an integral cultural and aesthetic entertainment experience for people the world over. Cinema developed against the backdrop of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Expo 67

    Not Just a Souvenir

    Edited by Johanne Sloan, Rhona Richman Kenneally ...
    Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural design as well as for cultural exchange, intended to enhance global understanding and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Depicting Canada’s Children

    Edited by Loren Lerner ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Invaders from the North

    How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe

    by John Bell ...
    Short-listed for the 2007 CBA Libris Awards for Book Design of the YearWhat do Superman, Prince Valiant, Cerebus the Aardvark, and Spawn have in common? Their creators Joe Shuster, Harold Foster, Dave Sim, and Todd McFarlane are Canadians. And while many of the cutting-edge talents of contemporary comix and graphic novels are also from Canada artists such as Chester Brown, Seth, Dave Cooper, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adult Comics

    by Roger Sabin ...
    Series series New Accents
    In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, Roger Sabin traces the history ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Canadian National Cinema

    by Chris Gittings ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada and Back to God's Country, to recent films like Nô, LE Confessional**Mon Oncle Antoine, Grey Fox, Highway 61, Kanehsatake, and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Comics Versus Art

    by Bart Beaty ...
    On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces.Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Theatricality of Robert Lepage

    by Aleksandar Dundjerovi ...
    Drawing on field research in Namibia and the Solomon Islands and case studies of international organizations such as USAID and Oxfam Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey argue that aid programs have forged new understandings of poverty that are more about governing the poor through neo-liberal reforms than providing just solutions to poverty. By analyzing these programs they reveal that concepts of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD