Gods and Monsters deals with the acclaimed 1998 film about openly gay film director James Whale, best known for the Frankenstein films of the 1930s. This book examines the film from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity and significance of its achievements, including its fusion of fantasy and biography. “Tsika gives the book a feel of authenticity that goes beyond intellectual honesty and reaches emotional genuineness.” —EDGE
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a queer film classic
Gods and Monsters Noah Tsika
film studies, lgbtq 160 pages softcover | isbn 978-1-55152-263-0 $15.95 can • $14.95 us
Hope in Shadows, a collection of photographs and essays by residents of Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside, offers readers an intimate and honest look at what it really means to live in Canada’s poorest neighborhood. A co-publication with Pivot Legal Society, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization.
vancouver book award winner shortlisted for haig-brown regional prize
Hope in Shadows Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Brad Cran & Gillian Jerome
canadian studies, cultural studies, sociology, visual arts 272 pages softcover | isbn 978-1-55152-238-8 $19.95 can • $19.95 us
How It All Began is the personal testimony of Michael “Bommi” Baumann, a man who, in the late 1960s and early ’70s, was a member of the June 2nd Movement, one of the most spectacular urban guerrilla organizations in West Berlin. The original German edition of Wie Alles Anfing was seized by security police when it appeared in 1975. This English edition (first published in 1981) makes a significant contribution to the history of protest movements in Western society.
How It All Began The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla Bommi Baumann
history, sociology 131 pages softcover | isbn 978-0-88978-045-3 $19.95 can • $18.95 us
arsenal pulp press