Books on Film & Literature FILM

CANADIAN TELEVISION TODAY Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan

978-1-55238-222-6 Paperback $24.95 CAD / $25.95 USD 184 pages

Canadian Television Today explores the challenges facing the English-language television industry in Canada. It presents main issues and debates surrounding the small screen and offers suggestions for the future of the medium, arguing that Canadian television should be a more fitting reflection of Canada’s multicultural society.

An ambitious and far-reaching discussion about the state of Canadian television programming . . . raises important questions not only about broadcasting but also about wider cultural issues facing all Canadians. —David Tucker, University of Toronto Quarterly

A provocative, highly polemical and entertaining essay that will no doubt open all kids of debate —Zoe Druick, Simon Fraser University

THE DOCUMENTARY ART OF FILMMAKER MICHAEL RUBBO D.B. Jones

978-1-55238-870-9 Paperback 978-1-55238-873-0 ePub 978-1-55238-874-7 mobi $34.95 CAD / $34.95 USD 262 pages, 50 illustrations CINEMAS OFF CENTRE

Michael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide. D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s career from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, his post NFB venture into feature films, and his return to Australia first as an executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and later as a director. Jones reveals not only the depth of meaning in Rubbo’s films, but also the depth of their influence on filmmaking itself.

Nobody knows the NFB like D.B. Jones, and nobody writes about documentary like him either. This is a terrific book: punchy, detailed, and eye- opening —Jerry White, Dalhousie University FILMING POLITICS Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46 Malek Khouri

978-1-55238-199-1 $34.95 CAD / $39.95 USD 292 pages CINEMAS OFF CENTRE

The early creative output of the National Film Board of Canada was informed by the political and social climate of a world facing the impact of World War II, the rise of Communism, and the struggle for social progress. Filming Politics explores the work of the NFB from 1939-1946, bringing to light films that have been largely forgotten and presenting a thorough reading of those films in the context in which they were produced and viewed.

RAIN/DRIZZLE/FOG Film and Television in Atlantic Canada Edited by Darrell Varga

978-1-55238-248-6 Paperback $34.95 CAD / $39.95 USD 340 pages, 27 illutrations CINEMAS OFF CENTRE

Rain/Drizzle/Fog is the first scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. It provides a broad historical overview, as well as essays on specific topics in contemporary and early television and on the works of prominent filmmakers. It is informed by a critical perspective of Atlantic cultural stereotypes and responds to the marginalization of regional film and television in Canadian film studies.

Fascinating reading for anyone intrigued by the international history of television. —James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review REVISIONING EUROPE The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner Jerry White

978-1-55238-550-0 Paperback 978-1-55238-553-1 ePub $34.95 CAD / $41.95 USD 254 pages, 3 illustrations CINEMAS OFF CENTRE

Revisioning Europe is a discussion of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema unsentimental about revolutionary struggle and unsparing in its critique of the European left. Jerry White argues that the work of Berger and Tanners is preoccupied with ideas that were both central to the Enlightenment and at the same time characteristically Swiss.

LITERATURE

THE CITIZEN'S VOICE Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature Michael Keren

978-1-55238-113-7 Paperback $24.95 CAD / $28.95 USD 179 pages

Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century's greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. A refreshing contribution that makes a pioneering effort to cross the boundaries between politics, literature, and culture, The Citizen's Voice expounds the key features of a "good citizen" while offering topics for discussion. CREATIVITY AND SCIENCE IN ARGENTINE LITERATURE Between Romanticism and Formalism Joanna Page

978-1-55238-732-0 Paperback 978-1-55238-772-6 ePub / 978-1-55238-773-3 mobi $34.95 CAD / $41.95 USD 304 pages LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STUDIES

This book adds a new perspective to the body of interdisciplinary work addressing the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture. It examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory in Argentina consistently employ theories and models from mathematics and science, making a significant contribution to the understanding of how newness and creativity have been theorized.

THE ELOQUENCE OF MARY ASTELL Christine M. Sutherland

978-1-55238-153-3 Paperback $44.95 CAD / $44.95 USD 224 pages

Mary Astell was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the Enlightenment. She wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. Astell showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate. The Eloquence of Mary Astell explores this important little- known figure.

GREENING THE MAPLE Canadian Ecocriticism in Context Edited by Ella Soper and Nicholas Brady

978-1-55238-546-3 Paperback 978-1-55238-549-4 ePub $44.95 CAD / $51.95 USD 624 pages

Ecocriticism is the investigation of the ways in which culture and the environment are conceptualized and interrelated. This book brings the development of ecoccriticsm in Canadian literary studies into context, featuring contributions by Northrop Frye, Rosemary Sullivan, and Margaret Atwood. GREENWOR(L)DS Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women’s Poetry Diana M.A. Relke

978-1-55238-017-8 Paperback $24.95 CAD / $28.95 USD 360 pages

Greenwor(l)ds rewrites the literary history of Canada from a feminist ecological perspective through a series of essays that examine the lives and work of nine women poets. Using insights from fields of knowledge as disparate as history and biology, physics and philosophy, psychoanalysis and communications studies, these essays reflect the transdisciplinary character of women's studies generally and feminist ecocriticism in particular.

READING ALICE MUNRO, 1973-2013 Robert Thacker

978-1-55238-839-6 Paperback 978-1-55238-842-6 ePub 978-1-55238-843-3 mobi $34.95 CAD / $34.95 USD 320 pages

Robert Thacker is the world’s leading scholar of Alice Munro. In this book, he offers a critical overview of Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Acknowledging her beginnings and her persistence as a writer of increasingly exceptional short stories, it treats her career through Thacker's criticism up to her fourteenth collection, Dear Life, and her 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.

SHARON POLLOCK First Woman of Canadian Theatre Edited by Donna Coates

978-1-55238-789-4 Paperback 978-1-55238-792-4 ePub 978-1-55238-793-1 Mobi $34.95 CAD / $34.95 USD 336 pages, 10 illustrations THE WEST

As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre. This collection is comprised of entirely new and original assessments of her work. AN UNSETTLED SPIRIT The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G.B. Lancaster) 1873-1945 Edited by Terry Sturm

978-1-55238-128-1 Paperback $39.95 CAD / $45.95 USD 320 pages, 82 illustrations

Under the name of G.B. Lancaster, Edith Lyttleton wrote over a dozen novels and some 250 short stories. She was New Zealand's most widely read author overseas in the first half of the twentieth century, reaching millions of readers. This is a fascinating account of the harsh experience of a gifted writer forced to earn her own living but struggling to move beyond the limits of potboilers to more serious work.

VIOLENCE IN ARGENTINE LITERATURE AND FILM (1989-2005) Edited by Carolina Rocha and Elizabeth Montes Garcés

978-1-55238-504-3 Paperback $34.95 CAD / $39.95 USD 286 pages LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STUDIES

This collection interprets and analyzes the extent to which violence communicates structural inequalities or fissures in contemporary Argentina. Essays explore the body as a site of physical violence, the legacies of Ar- gentina’s past, the collapse of the myth of the Argentine nation, and current battles over the definition of social and geographical places.

WRITING ALBERTA Building on a Literary Identity Edited by George Melnyk and Donna Coates

978-1-55238-890-7 Paperback 978-1-55238-893-8 ePub 978-1-55238-894-5 Mobi $34.95 CAD / $39.95 USD 320 pages THE WEST

Alberta writing has a long tradition and has come to ex- press a distinct literature. This collection offers a detailed discussion of contemporary and historical Alberta writers known and unknown. It proves that Alberta literature has always been unique, and that Alberta writers are unafraid to uncover, re-think, and re-imagine what has been laid to rest. WOMEN BETWEEN Construction of Self in the Work of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary Meigs and Mary Pratt Verna Reid

978-1-55238-242-4 Paperback $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD 380 pages, 27 colour illustrations

Women Between explores the evolving perceptions of self in the work of four Canadian women who came to prominence in middle age. Applying feminist and autobiographical theory, Verna Reid considers their work in light of the influences that have shaped their senses of identity. As a contemporary of her subjects, she brings a sensitivity and immediacy to the exploration of their lives and work.

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