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Concordia Faculty Authors
The Bookstore proudly supports Concordia Faculty Authors by stocking these
titles in our store and promotionally through this addition to our website. Below are a few of the books
authored by our colleagues within the Concordia community.
If you are a campus author who has a newly
published book, or have an upcoming "Author Event" (ie. a books signing or reading, launch events, etc),
then let us know about it.
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Principles of Human Computer Interaction Design
by Raul Valverde
Lecturer, SCOM/MIS
This book covers the design, evaluation and development process for interactive human computer interfaces including user interface design principles, task analysis, interface design methods, auditory interfaces, haptics, user interface evaluation, usability testing prototyping, issues in interface construction, interface evaluation, World Wide Web and mobile device interface issues.The book is ideal for the student that wants to learn how to use prototyping tools as part of the interface design and how to evaluate an interface and its interaction quality by using usability testing techniques.
Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership to Prevent Mass Atrocities
by Dr. Frank Chalk, Kyle Matthews,
LGen Roméo Dallaire (Ret'd),
Carla Barqueiro, Simon Doyle
Frank Chalk is Professor, History & Director of MIGS
Kyle Matthews is Lead Researcher, MIGS (Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies)
Impassioned, insightful, and determined, Mobilizing the Will to Intervene is a direct appeal to
American and Canadian politicians, NGOs, journalists, and the public to participate effectively in the prevention
of mass atrocities by pressuring their leaders to act. With simple, practical recommendations, this book shows
how civil society can participate in preventing future mass atrocities and help repair a ruined system of international aid.
False Mystice: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico
by Nora E. Jaffary
Associate Professor, History
False Mystics provides a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on
questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. Nora E. Jaffary examines more than one hundred trials
of "false mystics" whom the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and examines
why the Catholic church viewed the accused as deviants, illuminating the challenges that popular religion and
individual spirituality posed to both the institutional church and the colonial social order.
Josephine the Singer or The Nation of Mice
Translation by Karin Doerr and Barbara Galli
Karin Doerr is an Instructor in Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
Barbara Galli is a Part-time Professor in Religion
This is a new translation of Franz Kafka's story "Josephine the Singer or the Nation of the Mice" by
Karin Doerr, Barbara Galli and Gary Evans. The edition includes an afterword by Karin Doerr, which addresses the
story's relevance to Kafka's Jewish identity and Prague in his day. Both the translation and the afterword are
important contributions to the ongoing reappraisal of Kafka's biography and literary style.
Patronizing the Public: American Philanthropy's Transformation of Culture, Communication, and the Humanities
Edited by William J. Buxton
Professor, Communications Studies
This is the first detailed and comprehensive examination of how American philanthropy had
transformed culture, communication, and the humanities. Drawing on an impressive range of archival and
secondary sources, the chapters in the volume shed light on philanthropic foundations have shaped numerous
fields, including film, television, radio, journalism, drama, local history, museums, as well as art and
the humanities in general.
The Cinema Of Naruse Mikio: Women And Japanese Modernity
by Catherine Russell
Professor, Film Studies
One of the most prolific and respected directors of the Japanese cinema,
Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Yet little has been
written about Naruse in English; nor has much of the writing about him in Japanese been
translated into English. With The Cinema of Naruse Mikio, Catherine Russell brings deserved
critical attention to this under-appreciated director. Besides illuminating Naruse's
contributions to Japanese and world cinema, Russell's in-depth study of the director
sheds new light on the Japanese film industry between the 1930s and the 1960s.
Experimental Ethnography
by Catherine Russell
Professor, Film Studies
Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate,
autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema. By exploring the interplay
between the two forms, Catherine Russell throws new light on both the avant-garde and
visual anthropology. Original in both its choice of subject and its theoretical and
methodological approaches, this will appeal to visual anthropologists, as well as film
scholars interested in experimental and documentary practices.
Boccaccio's Naked Muse
by Tobias Foster Gittes
Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts College
Exploring the most significant of these myths, Boccaccio's Naked Muse presents
a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour
God by exalting his creation. Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply
reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works. Rather, he subtly altered and adapted them in
order to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural
achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked. Gittes critiques common conceptions
of Boccaccio's passivity, or his readiness to speak dismissively of his own work and to
cast himself as a victim of vicious critics. Instead, Gittes shows that Boccaccio
deliberately assumed this posture of passivity to align himself with a series of martyrs
who, like him, had willingly suffered torments in the interest of cultural advancement.
The (Un)Making Of The Modern Family
by Daniel Dagenais
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
The family institution is undergoing a radical transformation whereby all the
constituent relations of its modern structure are being challenged. A classical exercise of
family sociology, this book draws upon a wide range of disciplines: history, anthropology,
psychoanalysis and demography. Anybody concerned with the future of the family will find
interest in this book.Originally published by Les Presses de l'Universite Laval as "La fin de
la famille moderne", this book was awarded the Prix Jean-Charles Falardeau for the best book
published in French in Canada in the field of social sciences (2000-1).
Base Colonies In The Western Hemisphere, 1940-1967
by Steven High
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair, History
This book examines the consequences of the famous Anglo-American
destroyers-for-bases deal of September 1940, which saw fifty aged US destroyers exchanged
for extensive army and navy base sites in Trinidad, Bermuda, Newfoundland, and elsewhere.
While the diplomatic importance of the destroyers for bases deal has been widely acknowledged, few have
examined the social impact of these "friendly invasions" on the base colonies themselves. "Base Colonies"
is the first study to answer those questions within a cross-regional comparative framework.
The View From Here:
Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
by Matthew Hays
Part-time Instructor, Communication Studies
The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that became much
larger with the recent success of Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica.
But the history of gay and lesbian filmmakers is its own story. In "The View From Here", queer directors and
screenwriters - some mainstream, others who work defiantly from the margins - speak passionately
about the medium, in particular their personal experiences navigating through the often-cynical
and cruel film industry. All of them offer fascinating anecdotes and opinions about cinema, and
speak candidly about their attempts to combat studio apathy and demands of "the market" and still
create films that are entertaining, engaging, and truthful.
Two Hands Clapping
edited by Kit Brennan
Associate Professor, Theatre
A goldmine for actors seeking two-person plays, this volume features
full-length, one act, and short scripts for two actors. The playwrights are Canadian
and are working from coast to coast and most regions in between. Established writers
appear in this collection, as well as voices that are just beginning to make their
mark in Canadian theatre.
Catholicism and Science
by Paul L. Allen & Peter M. J. Hess
Paul L. Allen is Assistant Professor, Theology
When most people think about Catholicism and science, they will
automatically think of one of the famous events in the history of science -
the condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church. But the interaction of
Catholics with science has been - and is - far more complex and positive than
that depicted in the legend of the Galileo affair. Understanding the natural
world has always been a strength of Catholic thought and research - from the great
theologians of the Middle Ages to the present day - and science has been a hallmark
of Catholic education for centuries.
Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric
by Robert Danisch
Assistant Professor Communications Studies and Philosophy
In Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric, Robert Danisch
examines the search by America's first generation of pragmatists for a unique set of
rhetorics that would serve the needs of a developing democracy. Digging deep into
pragmatism's historical development, Danisch sheds light on its association with an
alternative but significant and often overlooked tradition. He draws parallels between
the rhetorics of such American pragmatists as John Dewey and Jane Addams and those of
the ancient Greek tradition. Danisch contends that, while building upon a classical
foundation, pragmatism sought to determine rhetorical responses to contemporary
irresolutions.
Corporate Wasteland:
The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
by Steven High and David Lewis
Steven High is Associate Professor and Canadian Research Chair, History
Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and
cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past -- the wrecked hulks
of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures
-- has for decades been a part of the North American landscape. In recent years,
however, these modern ruins have become cultural attractions, drawing increasing
numbers of adventurers, artists, and those curious about a forgotten heritage. Through
a unique blend of oral history, photographs, and interpretive essays,
Corporate Wasteland investigates this fascinating terrain and the phenomenon of its
loss and rediscovery.
Development Economics: A Policy Analysis Approach
by Eckhard Siggel
Professor, Economics
This innovative textbook focuses upon economic policy in the context of
developing countries. The aim is to show how economic theory can be applied to the real
and urgent challenges facing the developing world. Ideal for undergraduate and
introductory graduate courses. It provides a hands-on guide to making and assessing
economic policy decisions in the developing world.
Language Acts:
Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century
edited by Jason Camlot and Todd Swift
Jason Camlot is Associate Professor, English
Language Acts brings together twenty provocative essays on the state
of English-language poetry in Qubec since 1976. Born and raised during this
historically resonant period of Trudeauism, organized Qubecois nationalism,
language legislation, and profound demographic and cultural change, Anglo-Qubec
poetry has come of age in the 21st century as a literature with its own distinct
arguments about itself, and its own poetical acts in language.
The Greater Glory:
Thirty-Seven Years with the Jesuits
by Stephen Casey
Associate Professor (retired), Classics
In this candid and poignant memoir, Casey offers a
vivid and incisive portrayal of life in the seminary - the
training of novices, the physical and spiritual discipline,
the asceticism, and the struggle to attain Christian
perfection. Told with generosity and without rancor,
his critique of this fifteen-hundred-year-old way of life
- now disappearing - lies at the heart of this book.
Seduced by Modernity:
The Photography of Margaret Watkins
by Mary O'Connor, Katherine Tweedie, Margaret Watkins
Katherine Tweedie is Professor, Studio Arts at Concordia
Seduced by Modernity is the first book devoted to the life and work of
Canadian-born modernist photographer Margaret Watkins. Best known for art and
advertising photography executed in New York in the 1920s, Watkins was active in
the Clarence White school of photography and a participant in the shift from
pictorialism to modernism.
Narrating Social Order:
Agoraphobia and the Politics of Classification
by Shelley Z. Reuter
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces, has received minimal attention from
sociologists. Yet implicit within psychiatric discussion of this disease is a normative
account of society, social order, social ordering, and power relations, making agoraphobia
an excellent candidate for sociological interpretation. Narrating Social Order provides
the first critical sociological framework for understanding agoraphobia, as well as the
issue of psychiatric classification more generally.
Successful Science & Engineering Teaching in College and Universities
by Calvin Kalman
Professor & Director, Physics
Based on the author's work in science and engineering educational research,
this book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses
and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend
the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses.
Suspended Conversations
by Martha Langford
Assistant Professor, Art History
In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums
tell intimate and revealing stories about individuals and families, bringing to light
a rich collection of photographic travelogues, memoirs, thematic collections, and
family sagas compiled between 1860 and 1960 and held by the McCord Museum of
Canadian History. Martha Langford not only provides a fascinating glimpse of a
previous century's preoccupations and mores but brings photography into the great
conversation about how we remember and how we send our stories into the future.
Animals in Islamic Tradition and Muslim Cultures
by Richard Foltz
Associate Professor, Religion
This is the first comprehensive study of the role of animals in the Islamic tradition,
surveying Islamic and Muslim attitudes towards animals, and human responsiblities towards them,
through Islam's philosophy, literature, mysticism and art.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including classic texts in philosophy, literature and mysticism,
Foltz traces the development of Islamic attitudes towards animals over the centuries and confronts
some of the key ethical questions facing Muslims today.
Empire of the Senses
The Sensual Culture Reader
Edited by David Howes
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
In Empire of the Senses the senses are considered as cultural systems.
Bringing together classic pieces by key thinkers--from Marshall McLuhan and Alain Corbin
to Susan Stewart and Oliver Sacks--as well as newly commissioned articles, this path-breaking
book provides a comprehensive overview of the "sensual revolution," where all manner of
disciplines converge. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of the role of the senses
in history and across cultures by overturning the hegemony of vision in contemporary
theory and demonstrating that all senses play a role in mediating cultural experience.
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Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-First Century
by Maximilian C. Forte
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
What happens to indigenous culture and identity when being rooted in a fixed cultural
setting is no longer necessary - or even possible? Does cultural displacement mean that indigeneity
vanishes? How is being and becoming indigenous (i.e., indigeneity) experienced and practiced along
translocal pathways? How are "new" philosophies and politics of indigenous identification (indigenism)
constructed in "new," translocal settings? The essays in this collection develop our understandings
of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism, and related processes and experiences of social and cultural
globalization, showing us that these do not spell the end of ways of being and becoming indigenous.
Ludwig & Mae: Three plays by Louis Patrick Leroux
by Louis Patrick Leroux (translated)
Assistant Professor, English
La Litière (1994), Rappel (1995) and Ressusciter (1996), published together
here in English translation as Embedded, Apocalypse, and Resurrection respectively, make
up a trilogy of plays featuring Gen-Xers Ludwig and Mae. Together, these plays literally
"stage" the internalized and therefore repressed failure of the search for an authentic
life in art: the decorative nihilism of the post-modern ethos. Taking us on a cathartic
journey from despair to exhilaration at times perilous, comic, edgy and passionate
Ludwig & Mae releases its audiences from the artificial dark of the theatre into the
liberating light of day, radiant with a new understanding: life does not imitate art,
life makes art.
Blessings: Art and Essays on Jewish Blessings
by Norma Joseph, Loren Lerner, and Norman Ravvin
Norma Joseph and Norman Ravvin are Professors, Religion
Loren Lerner is Professor, Art History
Blessings: Art and Essays on Jewish Blessings presents a range of contributors' approaches to
the subject in essay and visual art. Contributors include Rabbis Howard Joseph and Leigh Lerner, scholars
Norma Joseph and Norman Ravvin, and two curators of art and Judaica in Montreal. Artists under discussion
include Sylvia Safdie, Marion Wagschal, Sorel Cohen and Devora Neumark. Illustrations of their work
are in color.
Relationscapes
Movement, Art, Philosophy
by Erin Manning
Assistant Professor, Film Studies
With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea
that movement is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms of the actual. Exploring the
relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media, Manning
argues for the intensity of movement. From this idea of intensity—the incipiency at the heart of
movement—Manning develops the concept of preacceleration, which makes palpable how movement
creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.
Depicting Canada's Children
edited by Loren Lerner
Chair, Department of Art History
A critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the
seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity,
these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across
a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings,
the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in
everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the
child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and
our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this
collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative
scholarship.
Acts Of Citizenship
A Historian's Journey Through Public Memory
by Engin F. Isin and Greg M. Nielsen
Greg Nielsen is Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
This book introduces the concept "acts of citizenship" in order to re-orientate
the way citizenship studies has been investigated over the last decade. The authors argue
that investigating acts of citizenship in terms irreducible to either status or practice,
while still valuing this distinction, requires a focus on those moments and processes whereby
subjects constitute themselves as citizens.
Remembering And Forgetting In Acadie:
A Historian's Journey Through Public Memory
by Ronald Rudin
Professor, History
A profound and accessible study of the often-conflicting purposes of public
history, Rudin details the contentious cultural, political, and historical issues that
were prompted by these anniversaries. Offering an astounding collection of materials,
Remembering and Forgetting in 'Acadie' is also accompanied by a website
that provides access to films, audio clips, and
photographs assembled on Rudin's journey through public memory.
Between Tradition and Modernity:
Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg, 1896-1918
by Mark Russell
Associate Professor, Liberal Arts
Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, was one of
the most influential cultural historians of the twentieth century. Focusing on the
period 1896-1918, this is the first in-depth, book-length study of his response to
German political, social and cultural modernism. It analyses Warburg's response to the
effects of these phenomena through a study of his involvement with the creation of some
of the most important public artworks in Germany. Using a wide array of archival sources,
including unpublished working papers and correspondence, a lively
picture of Hamburg's cultural life emerges as it responded to artistic modernism,
animated by private initiative and public discourse, and charged with debate.
Growing Up Online:
Young People and Digital Technologies
by Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon
Sandra Weber is Professor, Education
Shanly Dixon is a PhD candidate at Concordia
In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways
in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national
backgrounds are incorporating and making sense of digital technology in their everyday
lives. Contributors explore issues of gender, identity, access to technologies, social
and parental regulation, and cultural issues allowing cell phones, blogging, the production
and consumption of websites, social networking and gaming to take on new significance in
current theories, public discourse, and policy issues.
War Paint:
Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945
by Brian Foss
Professor, Art History
Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts
Lively and insightful, this groundbreaking
examination of British art during the Second
World War delves deeply into what art meant to
Britain and its people at a time when the nation's
very survival was under threat. Focusing closely
on Sir Kenneth Clark’s War Artists’ Advisory
Committee, it explores topics ranging from
censorship to the depiction of women as war
workers to evolving notions of Britishness.
Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania
by Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu
Lavinia Stan is Lecturer, Political Science
Lucian Turcescu is Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor, Theology
Stan and Turcescu examine the complex relationship between church and
state in the new post-communist Romania, providing analysis in key areas: church
collaboration with communist authorities, post-communist electoral politics,
nationalism and ethno-politics, restitution of Greek Catholic property, religious
education, and sexual behavior and reproduction. As the first scholars to be given
access to confidential materials from the archives of the communist political
police, the notorious Securitate, Stan and Turcescu also examine church archives,
legislation, news reports, and interviews with politicians and church leaders.
Latinocanada: A Critical Study of Ten Latin American Writers of Canada
by Hugh Hazelton
Associate Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
A burgeoning new branch of Hispanic literature, Latino-Canadian writing is
now becoming part of the Canadian and Quebec literary traditions. Latinocanadá,
a critical anthology, examines the work of Hispanic writers who have settled in Canada
over the past thirty years and includes newly translated selections of their work.
Scissors, Paper, Stone
by Martha Langford
Assistant Professor, Art History
Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic.
Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of memory
and art in a rich interdisciplinary study of contemporary photography and how it has
shaped modern memory. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool
of perception by arguing that photographic works are products of the mind - picturing
memory is, first and foremost, the expression of a mental process.
How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics
by William Byers
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematicians often describe their most important
breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to
ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox - not as the
methodical application of formalized rules. Byers
postulates that the nature of mathematical thinking
raises questions about objectivity, truth, and whether
math is discovered or invented. This book also
illuminates the human condition itself.
Image & Imagination
by Martha Langford
Assistant Professor, Art History
Photography and reality are inextricably linked but, whether one is being photographed,
making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography is an act of the imagination. In nine
original essays, art historians and cultural theorists break with photographic tradition to explore
the crucial role of the imagination in photography from nineteenth-century studio portraiture to
twenty-first-century digital innovations.
Urban Enigmas
by Johanne Sloan
Assistant Professor, Art History
The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining,
representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent
interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology
for urban cultural analysis. Contributors address
theoretical and methodological aspects of comparison, while case-studies examine
the mutually constituted identities of Montreal and Toronto through examples of
travel writing, public art, film festivals, theatrical performances, diasporic
communities, ethnic festivals, and urban media.
Residual Media:
Residual Technologies and Culture
Edited by Charles R. Acland
Associate Professor & Research Chair, Communications Studies
Contributing Author: Haidee Wasson
Assistant Professor, Cinema
In a society that breathlessly awaits "the new" in every medium, what happens to
last year's new? Ample critical energy has gone into the study of new media, genres, and
communities. But what becomes of discarded media? In what manner do the products of
technological change reappear as environmental problems, as "the new" in another part of
the world, as collectibles, as memories, and as art? Residual Media grapples with these
questions and more in a wide-ranging and eclectic collection of essays.
Politics of Touch:
Sense, Movement, Sovereignty
by Erin Manning
Assistant Professor, Film Studies
Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body.
Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, Politics of Touch
examines the ways in which bodies continually run up against existing political structures. In
this groundbreaking work, Erin Manning reconsiders how politics attempts to paralyze the body
through the idea of the national body politic.
The Reading List
by Linda Kay
Assistant Professor of Journalism
The Reading List, a timely memoir that traces the path of a young
female journalist thrust into a story involving a famous author and a convicted
criminal, considers the symbiosis between journalists and their sources. This
book is an astute reflection upon the often unsatisfying quest for truth.
Liberation from Liberalization
by Roksana Bahramitash
Faculty Lecturer, Simone de Beauvoir Institute
This book focuses on Southeast Asia and the role the state has played in
the economies of Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines. While showing that the role of
women in the economy has contributed significantly to economic growth, limiting the
role of the state under the influence of neo-liberal globalization, particularly with
welfare state reduction, has been responsible for growing poverty, especially among
women. The book argues in favor of a system that incorporates women's groups into the
decision-making process of the state while making sure the state remains both transparent
and subject to the political advocacy of its citizens.
Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism
by Viviane Namaste
Asistant Professor, Women's Studies, Simone de Besuvoir Institute
This book provides readers with an introduction to contemporary transsexual
politics in Canadian and Quebecois contexts. Through different case studies relating to
the law, human rights, health care, and prostitution, Dr. Namaste exposes readers to the
complexity of the issues involved in thinking about transsexual politics in relation to
feminism.
Translating Montreal:
Episodes in the Life of a Divided City
by Sherry Simon
Professor, Etudes Françaises
The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan,
hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods
and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary
passages from the then of the colonial city to the now of the cosmopolitan Montreal, she traces
a history of crossings and intersections around the familiar sites and symbols of the city -
the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent, Mile End, the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Mont-Royal.
The Romance of Transgression in Canada:
Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas
by Thomas Waugh
Professor of Cinema
The Romance of Transgression in Canada is a history of sexual representation on the large
and small screen in English Canada and Quebec. Thomas Waugh identifies the queerness that has emerged at
the centre of our national sex-obsessed cinema, filling a gap in the scholarly literature.
It is both a scholarly account and a celebration of Canadian LGBTQ films - moving images that have
scandalized conservative politicans, but are the envy of queer cultural festivals around the world.
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