Cultural Studies
Shoot It!
Shoot It! is a revealing history of how Hollywood, with its eye on the bottom line, lost its ability to support the work of creative filmmakers; it is also a passionate portrait of the independent filmmakers ...
Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971
Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, an art book on the politics of urban conflict, is based on the work of Stan Douglas, one of Canada's most revered contemporary artists. His film and video ...
The Only Poetry That Matters
In The Only Poetry That Matters, novelist and poet Clint Burnham offers the first book-length examination of the Kootenay School of Writing, the notorious group of poets who came to international attention ...
The Inverted Gaze
François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey ...
Venus with Biceps
As seen in People and The New Yorker
Over the last 100 years, the image of the physically strong, confident, muscular woman has
been the object of derision, fascination, and
erotic fantasy; she is often ...
After Canaan
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award
After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous ...
The Last Genet
During the last eighteen years of his life (1968-86), Jean Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced: among them, the Black Panthers, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Palestinians. ...
American Hunks
Excerpted on out. com
The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, ...
To the Dogs
Featured in Modern Dog magazine and excerpted in The National Post
The history of the relationship between canines and humans is more complex than one would think. From Sparta to Stalingrad, the dogs of ...
The Dictionary of Homophobia
Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various cultural responses to ...