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“jamie dopp”

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  • Not Hockey

    Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature

    Edited by Angie Abdou, Jamie Dopp ...
    In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does “sport” differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Hockey on the Moon

    Imagination and Canada’s Game

    by Jamie Dopp ...
    Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key texts of hockey literature, with a focus on how these texts reveal the imaginative possibilities of the game. Popular texts like Stompin’ Tom Connors’ “The Hockey ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Writing the Body in Motion

    A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature

    Edited by Angie Abdou, Jamie Dopp ...
    Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport

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  • Marshall McLuhan

    by Judith Fitzgerald ...
    Series Book 7 - Quest Biography
    Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964. McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms like "hot" and "cool" media, "the global village," and "the medium is the message." ... Read more

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  • He Was Some Kind of a Man

    Masculinities in the B Western

    by Roderick McGillis ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century’s most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • What's So Funny?

    Lessons from Canada's Leacock Medal for Humour Writing

    by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle ...
    Is there a Canadian sense of humour? How can we write with more humour? And what can humour writing teach us about ourselves? These are questions explored in What’s So Funny? Lessons from Canada’s Leacock Medal for Humour Writing — Ottawa writer Dick Bourgeois-Doyle's personal review of books that have won our country’s premier award for humour writing. ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Canadian Primal

    Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning

    by Mark Dickinson ...
    Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets – Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn – are major voices in an era of ecological devastation and spiritual unease. Their diverse, questioning work suggests new ways to confront some of the most pressing issues ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Sports Film

    Games People Play

    by Bruce Babington ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle and silent comedy. Four major films are then closely analysed – Chariots of Fire, Field of Dreams, the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Hockey

    Four Decades of the Game on Screen

    by Iri Cermak ...
    Ice hockey has featured in North American films since the early days. Hockey's sizable cinematic repertoire explores different views of the sport, including the role of aggression, the business of sports, race and gender, and the role of women in the game. This critical study focuses on hockey themes in more than 50 films and television movies from the U.S. and Canada spanning several decades. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Road Movie Book

    Edited by Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark ...
    The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Hollywood Blockbusters

    The Anthropology of Popular Movies

    by David Sutton, Peter Wogan ...
    Why do 'Jaws', 'Field of Dreams', 'The Big Lebowski', and 'The Godfather' remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin cycles? "Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies" argues that these films continue to captivate audiences because they play upon underlying tensions and problems in American culture, much like the myths that anthropologists ... Read more

    $57.99 USD