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        Sex Work in Popular Culture

        Sex Work in Popular Culture

        by Lauren Kirshner

        Price:

        $34.95

        ISBN: 9781487548636

        Pub Date: July 2023

        This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.

        Expressive Acts

        Expressive Acts

        Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto

        by Ian Radforth

        Price:

        $38.95

        ISBN: 9781487545772

        Pub Date: March 2023

        This book reveals the fascinating history of how and why people gathered in the streets of Victorian Toronto – both in jubilation and in anger.

        Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds

        Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds

        Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR

        by Diana Cucuz

        Price:

        $85.00

        ISBN: 9781487503772

        Pub Date: January 2023

        Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."

        The Near-Death of the Author

        The Near-Death of the Author

        Creativity in the Internet Age

        by John Potts

        Price:

        $32.95

        ISBN: 9781487546120

        Pub Date: November 2022

        The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age

        A Decolonizing Ear

        A Decolonizing Ear

        Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive

        by Olivia Landry

        Price:

        $75.00

        ISBN: 9781487544850

        Pub Date: November 2022

        A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.

        Empire and Communications

        Empire and Communications

        by Harold A. Innis

        Edited by William J. Buxton

        Introduction by William J. Buxton

        Price:

        $44.95

        ISBN: 9781487520694

        Pub Date: August 2022

        This edition of Empire and Communications enriches Harold A. Innis’s examination of the relationship between communications and power structures.

        Media Critique in the Age of Gillray

        Media Critique in the Age of Gillray

        Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres

        by Joseph Monteyne

        Price:

        $75.00

        ISBN: 9781487527747

        Pub Date: February 2022

        Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.

        Open Letters

        Open Letters

        Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880–1922

        by Alison Rowley

        Price:

        $39.95

        ISBN: 9781487545284

        Pub Date: October 2021

        Gorgeously illustrated, Open Letters uses picture postcards to explore aspects of Russian popular culture in the fin-de-siècle era.

        Digital Playgrounds

        Digital Playgrounds

        The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games

        by Sara M. Grimes

        Price:

        $47.95

        ISBN: 9781442615564

        Pub Date: July 2021

        Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.

        Disruptive Prisoners

        Disruptive Prisoners

        Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal

        by Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn

        Price:

        $37.95

        ISBN: 9781487525910

        Pub Date: July 2021

        In this history of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Canada, the voices of prisoners help to provide a nuanced understanding of prisoners as active agents of change.

        Languages of Trauma

        Languages of Trauma

        History, Memory, and Media

        Edited by Peter Leese, Jason Crouthamel and Julia Barbara Köhne

        Price:

        $100.00

        ISBN: 9781487508968

        Pub Date: March 2021

        Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.

        The Web of Meaning

        The Web of Meaning

        The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society

        by Elaine Jingyan Yuan

        Price:

        $53.00

        ISBN: 9781487508135

        Pub Date: March 2021

        Exploring online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market, this book details the crucial and evolving role played by the Internet in present-day China.

        The Akunin Project

        The Akunin Project

        The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author

        Edited by Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris

        Price:

        $49.95

        ISBN: 9781487525767

        Pub Date: February 2021

        You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.

        Digital Politics in Canada

        Digital Politics in Canada

        Promises and Realities

        Edited by Tamara Small and Harold Jansen

        Price:

        $55.00

        ISBN: 9781487587581

        Pub Date: October 2020

        The increased use of digital politics by citizens, groups, and governments over the last 25 years carried the promise of transforming the way politics and government was practiced. This book looks at Canadian political practice and the reality of the political process against those early promises.

        The Quest for Meaning

        The Quest for Meaning

        A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition

        by Marcel Danesi

        Price:

        $38.95

        ISBN: 9781487523510

        Pub Date: September 2020

        The go-to introductory guide to semiotic theory and practice, this second edition features a new chapter on semiotics in the digital age and sheds light on how we grasp for meaning in the modern world.

        Conspiracy Culture

        Conspiracy Culture

        Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination

        by Keith A. Livers

        Price:

        $83.00

        ISBN: 9781487507374

        Pub Date: September 2020

        This book examines the uses of conspiracy tropes in post-Soviet culture, providing the first systematic, in-depth analysis of Russia’s most "paranoid" contemporary authors.

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