Canadian Running-March April 2022
English | 78 Pages | PDF | 62.63 MB

Canadian Cycling Volume 13 Issue 2-March 2022
English | 102 Pages | PDF | 49.77 MB

Garth Stevenson, "Building Nations from Diversity: Canadian and American Experience Compared (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History) "
English | ISBN: 0773543864 | 2014 | 336 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Building Nations from Diversity explores the question of whether the Canadian "mosaic" has differed from the American "melting pot" and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences. Garth Stevenson examines the origins of Canada and the United States and their past experiences with incorporating selected immigrant groups, particularly Irish, Chinese, and Jews. Establishing the foundational ways in which they placed new groups within their societies, Stevenson then outlines how the US and Canadian systems developed immigration policy and handled difference, detailing their treatment of "enemy aliens" during both world wars, their experience with minority languages, and recent Islamophobia. He also studies the introduction of multiculturalism into the lexicon and policy of the two countries and presents a nuanced analysis of how its meaning is understood differently on opposite sides of the border. An accessible and illuminating work, Building Nations from Diversity highlights the substantial differences between the US and Canada but ultimately concludes that they are more similar than most realize and are probably becoming more alike.

Canadian Living-April 2022
English | 102 Pages | PDF | 59.55 MB

Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema By Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, Janine Marchessault
1999 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 0802041205 | PDF | 18 MB
Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, When Night is Falling), Alanis Obomsawin (My Name Is Kahenttiiosta, Walker), and Micheline Lanctot (Deux Actrices) at festivals throughout the world in recent years attest to the growing international recognition for films made by Canadian women. With Gendering the Nation the editors have produced a definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. In dialogue with new paradigms for understanding the relationship of cinema with nation and gender, Gendering the Nation seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture. This collection of critical essays employs a variety of frameworks to analyse cinematic practices that range from narrative to documentary to the avant garde.

Winfried Siemerling, "The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past"
English | ISBN: 0773545077 | 2015 | 560 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (2015).

So Close to the State/s: The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy, 1952-1976 By Michael Dorland
1998 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 080208043X | PDF | 11 MB
This book examines in detail the formation of Canadian feature film policy from the 1950s to the present. It pays special attention to the role played by producers, filmmakers, and government agencies, in relation to the changing production practices brought about by Canadian television. For Canadian policy-makers, the feature film was considered to be a signifier of cultural modernity. Filmmakers' desire to experiment with a new format was subverted by a political-economic agenda intent on using the format to create cultural authenticity for a nation lagging behind its neighbour to the South. Dorland crafts a careful historical analysis based on primary sources, including government records and in-depth personal interviews with key participants. Employing Foucault's concept of governmentality, Dorland analyses the state's interest in influencing and shaping feature film production. A major contribution to scholarship on Canadian cinema, So Close to the State/s provides a revealing look at the relationship between culture and the state.

Canadian Yachting - February 2022
English | 86 pages | True PDF | 24 MB

Canadian Yachting - April 2022
English | 70 pages | True PDF | 19 MB

The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers By Brenda Austin-Smith, George Melnyk
2010 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 1554581796 | PDF | 5 MB
This book is the first major study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking Gendering the Nation (1999). The Gendered Screen updates the subject with discussions of important filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta, Anne Wheeler, Mina Shum, Lynne Stopkewich, Léa Pool, and Patricia Rozema, whose careers have produced major bodies of work. It also introduces critical studies of newer filmmakers such as Andrea Dorfman and Sylvia Hamilton and new media video artists. Feminist scholars are re-examining the ways in which authorship, nationality, and gender interconnect. Contributors to this volume emphasize a diverse feminist study of film that is open, inclusive, and self-critical. Issues of hybridity and transnationality as well as race and sexual orientation challenge older forms of discourse on national cinema. Essays address the transnational filmmaker, the queer filmmaker, the feminist filmmaker, the documentarist, and the video artist-just some of the diverse identities of Canadian women filmmakers working in both commercial and art cinema today.