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  • Australian Queer Screens

    Diversity and Social Change in Film and TV

    by Rob Cover, Whitney Monaghan, Stuart Richards, Scott McKinnon, Tinonee Pym ...
    This is the first book-length study of Australia's rich history of LGBTQ+ film and television, covering histories, production, screen representation and audience identities.Despite a long-standing international field of queer media studies, Australian scholarship has only recently emerged. Screen diversity in Australia is important to cultural policy, education and social harmony. This book ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Gay Men at the Movies

    Film reception, cinema going and the history of a gay male community

    by Scott McKinnon ...
    Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalised groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources, including film reviews, media reports, personal memoirs, oral histories and a striking range of films, all deployed to answer the question of ... Read more

    $48.39 USD

  • The Archaeology of American Shipwrecks

    by Della A.  Scott-Ireton, Jennifer F. McKinnon ...
    Series series The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective
    Uncovering America’s past through the archaeology of its shipwrecksThe Archaeology of American Shipwrecks highlights the essential role of watercraft in United States history and demonstrates how the study of submerged sites contributes to a deeper understanding of the nation’s past. Combining evidence from shipwreck excavations with historical documentation, this volume reveals how maritime ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • A Field Guide to the Birds of Alberta

    by David R. Scott, Gavin McKinnon ...
    Situated at the convergence of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and North America’s vast boreal forest, Alberta boasts a great diversity of landscapes and habitats. From turquoise glacier lakes nestled between towering peaks, to spruce- and sphagnum-dominated muskeg, to labyrinthine badland canyons, to expansive grassland dotted with sagebrush, to islands of green space amidst sprawling cities, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Disasters in Australia and New Zealand

    Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe

    Edited by Scott McKinnon, Margaret Cook ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Subcultures

    Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    by Ken Gelder ...
    This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature

    by Belinda Wheeler, Michael R. Griffiths, Nichola Jose, Oliver Haag, Paula Anca Farca, Stuart Cooke, Theodore Sheckels, Andrew King, Danica Cerce, Jeanine Leane0, Jennifer Jones1, Katrin Althans2, Martina Horakova3, Maryrose Casey4 ...
    Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Australian National Cinema

    by Tom O'Regan ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its starting point Bazin's question 'What is cinema?'and asks what the construct of a 'national' cinema means. It looks at the broader concept from a different angle, taking film beyond the confines of 'art' into the broader cultural world. O'Regan's analysis situates Australian cinema in its historical and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Staging Queer Feminisms

    Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015

    by Sarah French ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Colouring the Rainbow

    Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives

    Edited by Dino Hodge ...
    "Colouring the Rainbow" uncovers the often hidden world of Queer and Trans Blak Australia and tells it like it is. Twenty-two First Nations people reveal their inner reflections and outlooks on family and culture, identity and respect, homophobia, transphobia, racism and decolonisation, activism, art, performance and more, through life stories and essays. The contributors to this ground-breaking ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Gay Sydney

    A History

    by Garry Wotherspoon ...
    Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geology of British Columbia

    A Journey Through Time

    by Sydney Cannings, Richard Cannings, JoAnne Nelson ...
    This book tells the story of the province’s geology and the history of its living creatures. The first edition of Geology of British Columbia,, with its accessible but rigorous science, struck a chord with readers. Since it was first published, theories about plate tectonics and the geological history of British Columbia have evolved, and this new edition reflects the current thinking. This book ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus