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Laughing Back at Empire

The Grassroots Activism of The Asianadian Magazine, 1978–1985

Angie Wong (Author)

Laughing Back at Empire is a groundbreaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic magazines. Wong’s work amplifies Asian Canadian voices that speak, shout, and laugh together at empire’s self-congratulatory and exclusionary narratives.

Establishing Shots

An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group

Kevin Nikkel (Author)

Both a deep dive into the life of an internationally renowned institution and an exploration of the growth of an experimental film movement, this collection of interviews produces a vibrant picture of the Winnipeg Film Group’s origins, successes, failures, and ongoing impact.

Indigenous Celebrity

Entanglements with Fame

Jennifer Adese (Editor), Robert Alexander Innes (Editor)

Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people’s entanglements with celebrity. A wide range of essays explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people.

Stories of Oka

Land, Film, and Literature

Isabelle St. Amand (Author), S.E. Stewart (Translator), Katsitsén:hawe Linda David Cree (Foreword)

In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis—or the Kanehsatake Resistance—exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature examines the standoff in relation to film and literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau

Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media

Carmen L. Robertson (Author)

Cathy Covell Waegner (Editor)

Mediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media—including print, film, theater, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric—that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American identities and images.

Seeing Red

A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers

Mark Cronlund Anderson (Author), Carmen L. Robertson (Author)

The first book to examine the role of Canada’s newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority.

Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson (Editor), Marian Bredin (Editor)

Indigenous media challenges state power, erodes communication monopolies, and illuminates government threats to Indigenous cultural, social, economic, and political sovereignty. Its effectiveness in these areas, however, is hampered by government control of broadcast frequencies, licensing, and legal limitations over content and ownership.

Playing with Memories

Essays on Guy Maddin

David Church (Editor)

The first collection of scholarly essays on the work of internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. Featuring new and updated essays from American, Canadian, and Australian scholars, collaborators, and critics, as well as an in-depth interview with Maddin, this collection explores the aesthetics and politics behind Maddin’s work.

One Man’s Documentary

A Memoir of the Early Years of the National Film Board

Graham McInnes (Author), Gene Walz (Editor)

McInnes’s memoir of these “days of high excitement” is an insider’s look at the NFB from 1939 to 1945, a vivid “origin” story of Canada’s emerging world-class film studio that provides the NFB with the kind of full-bodied vitality usually associated with the great Hollywood studios in their golden years.

Reporting the Resistance

Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance

Alexander Begg (Editor)