Film & Cultural Studies
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From  Distant PlacesFrom: At Home |
Chapter 10 features interviews with Lorraine Field, Catherine Bodmer, and Josée Pedneault. This chapter focuses on artists who travel for the subjects of their art, but whose “home … | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Distant Thunder, Intersection, and Insomnia: Tricks of MemoryFrom: Shot in Vancouver |
In this chapter, Wiebe examines three character-driven dramas—Distant Thunder (1988), Intersection (1994), and Insomnia (2002)—united by themes of memory, guilt, and moral reckoning. | Sam Wiebe | 6 | 2026 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Education Bringing Us HomeFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include education, communal awakening, reclaiming one’s own autonomy and history, education as a way towards justice and freedom, oppressive frameworks, creative workshops … | Shayda Kafai | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Emerging Human Rights InstitutionsThe Case of Museums in a Human Rights Culture |
Discussion of the potential of cultural institutions to bridge the gap between inspiration and cynicism found in human rights discourses. | Jennifer A Orange; Jennifer Carter | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Enlarging the American CinemaArmond White vs. the Straight Middle-Class White World (and the Black Bourgeoisie) From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author examines Armond White’s wildly overlooked film criticism of the 1980’s and 1990’s to shed light on his contributions to resistance aesthetics and film … | Daniel McNeil | 44 | 2022 | $4.40 Add |
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From EpilogueFrom: Crip Kinship |
Epilogue: "Why All This Matters." | Shayda Kafai | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Ethnic Broadcasting:A History From: Cultural Industries.ca |
Mark Hayward’s institutional history of multicultural television draws attention to the largely forgotten history of multicultural media in this country and to the tendency to study the … | Mark Hayward | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Everyone Tells My West Side Story but MeFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author explores the history, storyline, and issues of West Side Story, looking at issues of typecasting and racism. The author argues that Puerto Ricans are not the ones telling their West … | Nancy Mercado | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Expanding the GardenThe Mulroney Years From: The Tangled Garden |
A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former … | Richard Stursberg | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
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From  Expansion of Free Trade and Investment Agreements |
How recent expansion of Canada’s free trade agreements and the implementation of investment agreements have affected Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the Multilateral Agreement on … | Garry Neil | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Fairy Tales of Two Cities:or Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s) From: In a Queer Country |
Thomas Waugh’s "Fairy Tales of Two Cities: Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s)" considers examples from a past when Canadian cinema in general was defining itself, in response to … | Thomas Waugh | 26 | 2001 | $0.52 Add |
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From Family as a Site of Contestation:Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer? From: In a Queer Country |
Michelle K. Owen’s essay looks at what recently has become the most prominent aspect of this struggle for recognition. Owen ‘s response is informed and polemical; a scholarship that … | Michelle K. Owen | 22 | 2001 | $0.44 Add |
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From Film and Television:A Success? From: Cultural Industries.ca |
In Peter Urquhart’s chapter on film and television, he argues that the lens through which one examines the relative success or failure of these industries directly affects the conclusions … | Peter Urquhart | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Final Destination: Tony Todd’s Last WordsFrom: Shot in Vancouver |
In this chapter, Wiebe discusses how The Final Destination franchise was filmed in Vancouver. | Sam Wiebe | 6 | 2026 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! First Blood: The Rambo Robbery and Other MisadventuresFrom: Shot in Vancouver |
In this chapter, Wiebe examines the 1982 production of First Blood in Hope, British Columbia, and the misadventures that shaped its making. | Sam Wiebe | 6 | 2026 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge: Nicholson Goes NorthFrom: Shot in Vancouver |
In this chapter, Wiebe traces Jack Nicholson’s rise as a New Hollywood star through two landmark films shot in British Columbia in the early 1970s. | Sam Wiebe | 5 | 2026 | $0.50 Add |
