George Melnyk is professor emeritus of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. He has written and edited over twenty-five books on Canadian cinema, Alberta literature, the co-operative movement, and other Canadian subjects. As someone who came to Canada as a refugee he is deeply connected to the phenomenon and has published articles on Canada and refugees. This is his first book on the topic. Christina Parker is an assistant professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College at the University of Waterloo. She specializes in critical ethnographic and mixed methods research in diverse schools and communities and is the author of Peacebuilding, Citizenship, and Identity: Empowering Conflict and Dialogue in Multicultural Classrooms (Sense|Brill, 2016).
Cities and the people who live in them are enduring subjects of photography. Winnipeg’s North End is one of North America’s iconic neighbourhoods, a place where the city’s unique character and politics have been forged.
Contributions by Katherine Govier, Tasha Hubbard, Geo Takach, Neil Querengesser, Cynthia Zimmerman, Harry Vandervlist, Joseph Pivato, Moira Day, R. Douglas Francis, and Jars Balan
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781552388907
Pub Date: June 2017
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and...
Film directors articulate creative visions that provide insights into national cultures. 18 essays highlight Canada's prominent Anglophone and Francophone filmmakers.
Melnyk argues passionately that Canadian cinema has never been a singular entity, but has continued to speak in the languages and in the voices of Canada's diverse population.
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...
Contributions by Doug Owram, Laurence Kitzan, Matthew Wrangler, David Hall, Sarah Carter, Anthony W. Rasporich, Bill Waiser, Randi Warne, R. Douglas Francis, Bradford J. Rennie, Catherine A. Cavanaugh, Chris Kitzan, Steve Hewitt, George Melnyk, Michael Fedyk, and Brett Fairbairn
Edited by R. Douglas Francis, and Chris Kitzan
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9781552382301
Pub Date: August 2007
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
So the emblem of the West / Our bright Maple Leaf is bless'd / To its children of the goodly open hand; / All the nations of the earth / Are now learning of its worth / And are flocking to this...
In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the...
In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to WorldWar Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the...
For many years, Canadian cinema was dominated by the documentary tradition of the National Film Board, which tended to promote what film scholar Jim Leach has called the “nationalist-realist project”—films...
As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right.
Literary historian and scholar George Melnyk engages the dynamic between truth, language, and personal identity. His intent is to take the reader to the limits of language and meaning, to face the wordless...
Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, and the long roll of the woodlands have left vivid...
Contributions by George Melnyk, Douglas Roche, Tareq Y. Ismael, Jacqueline S. Ismael, Trudy Govier, Colleen Beaumier, Joyce Patel, Jim Harding, David Swann, Bill Phipps, Donn Lovett, Arthur Clark, Robert Hackett, Scott Ritter, Imtiaz Hussain, Satya R. Pattnayak, and Mel Hurtg
Edited by George Melnyk
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781552381304
Pub Date: April 2004
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 send shock waves around the world. The unilateral decision to invade Iraq an overthrow its government was opposed by many nations and citizens. Prior to the invasion,...
Contributions by Ninoxkyaio, Mary Schaffer, Fred Stenson, Monica Hopkins, and Thomas King
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781552380796
Pub Date: September 2003
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
The first multi-genre historical anthology of Alberta writing since 1979, The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose collects twentieth-century short fiction, excerpts from novels, and non-fiction. This...
