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The Interactive Documentary in Canada
Michael Brendan Baker and Jessica Mulvogue
Interactive documentary emerged rapidly from a constellation of changing technologies and practices to much excitement, yet its history is short and its future uncertain. In the mid-2010s Canada was a world leader in the creation of i-docs. Less than a decade later technological obsolescence has rendered many of these celebrated projects inaccessible, while rapid digital innovation continues to change
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Learning in An Uncertain World: Transforming Higher Education for the Anthropocene
Nathaniel Barr, Kylie Hartley, Joel Lopata, Brandon McFarlane, and Dr. Michael J. McNamara
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution rapidly changes how people live, work, and connect, and as the realities of the Anthropocene and a planet irrevocably marked by human activity come to impact all aspects of existence on Earth, our species faces great uncertainty. Social, economic, and environmental challenges, primarily of our own doing, pose grave risks with no certainties as
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Popular Music and Short-form Nonfiction: Is the Web a Forum for Documentary Innovation?
Michael Brendan Baker
In the latest white paper prepared by Cisco Systems, one of the largest technology conglomerates in the world, it was revealed 82 percent of all internet traffic in 2017 was video and predicted the figure will grow four-fold within the next five years. By that time, a million minutes of video content will stream across global networks every second
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Cooking Memories: A Sheridan College Community Cookbook
Jessica Carey and Téa Smith
With the support of an internal SRCA Growth Grant and a team of student editors and designers, Dr. Jessica Carey, professor in the faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS), has produced Cooking Memories: A Sheridan Community Cookbook - a collection of over forty recipes and food stories contributed by staff, faculty, and students at Sheridan College. The collection
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Creative Humanities 2016-2021
Brandon McFarlane
In 2016, the Creative Humanities initiative at Sheridan College was founded by Dr. Brandon McFarlane with the ambition of retooling the humanities by inspiring new approaches grounded in creative inquiry and critical innovation. We imagine optimistic futures for the humanities and higher education and engage in the struggle work necessary to manifest those utopian visions in our everyday lives.
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Experiencing Culture
Anna Boshnakova
Cultural anthropology is a rich multidisciplinary subfield of anthropology. Cultural anthropologists’ study all aspect of people’s life simultaneously; they observe, describe and experience different cultures participating in their everyday activities for an extended period of time; compare and explain the similarities and differences among cultural groups around the world based on ethnographic accounts; study genetic predispositions to certain diseases,
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Introduction to Anthropology
Anna Boshnakova
Anthropology is a discipline with an intriguing reputation. The unforgettable George Lucas Indiana Jones movies, Dan Brown’s bestselling mystery-detective novel The Da Vinci Code or the popular TV series Bones represent different aspects of the multidisciplinary nature of anthropology and give us an idea what anthropologists do, albeit a Hollywoodized one. The smart and brave Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana”
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Sociology Unlocked
Sara Cumming
This engaging new introduction presents sociological concepts in easy-to-understand, relatable, and practical terms - with just the right amount of depth. Featuring an authentic narrative writing style, real-world examples and activities, and extensive pedagogical tools, Sociology Unlocked is your students' key to understanding sociology.
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Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020
Paul Vermeersch
Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and selected.” Bringing together the very best of his poetry from the last quarter century with new and never-before-published works, Shared Universe is a sprawling chronicle of the dawn of civilizations, the riddles of 21st-century existence, and any number of glorious, or menacing, futures. Selected poetry collections are traditionally organized according to the
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The Musicality of Canadian Cinema
Michael Brendan Baker
This chapter offers a narrative account of music in Canadian cinema that highlights the contributions of its pioneers. Case studies spanning the critically acclaimed, the curious, and the marginalized allow for an effort to flesh out the place of music, particularly popular music, in this national cinema. While the esthetics and dollars-and-cents of music in film may be similar
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It’s Such a Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: A Genealogy of the Music Mockumentary
Michael Brendan Baker and Peter Lester
Recognized primarily for its commercial breakthrough, Rob Reiner’s This is Spinal Tap (USA, 1984), the music mockumentary genre comprises dozens of films addressing a range of musical styles and performers in comedic ways. This chapter presents a genealogy of the music mockumentary, detailing its successes, limits, and potential in the contemporary history of film and television comedy. Styled primarily
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COMM 19999: Essential Communication Skills
Julie Warkentin and Jonathan Filipovic
This open educational resource textbook provides Sheridan students with the foundational information and skills necessary to be successful in diploma-level programs. The book integrates customized Sheridan-centred content, including information on academic resources available on campus and customized readings that reflect the cross-disciplinary work of Sheridan programs, students, and faculty. With a focus on writing and research skills for both
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Intuition, reason, and creativity: An integrative dual-process perspective
Nathaniel Barr
Long before psychology was a science, creativity was seen in many cultures as an essentially important yet difficult to understand aspect of human experience. Throughout history, to account for the mysterious inception of novel and useful ideas, appeals have often been made to supernatural forces and divine intervention. Decades ago, as psychology first began to approach, in earnest, the
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Why Reason Matters: Connecting Research on Human Reason to the Challenges of the Anthropocene
Nathaniel Barr and Gordon Pennycook
The capacity to reason has improved the life of human beings in innumerable ways through the innovations it has wrought and the experiences it affords. Culture, art, music, literature, science, and engineering are all products of reason that enrich our collective experience and well-being. Although these benefits are intuitively apparent, a reflective analysis reveals that the same advances that
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When Are Students Ready Enough? Issues and Dilemmas Around Assessment of L2 Writers in a WAC Program
Hee-Seung Kang
This vignette chapter reflects on the complexities surrounding assessment of L2 writers in a WAC program. As Director of ESL Writing Program working with disciplinary faculty, the author observes that faculty members’ expectations for L2 writers vary, and as a result, faculty assessment practices differ. Some faculty were uncertain how to respond and accurately evaluate L2 writers’ writing while
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Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy
Paul Vermeersch
It is the Third Millennium. The 20th century is a memory. Humans no longer walk on the moon. Passenger planes no longer fly at supersonic speeds. Disinformation overwhelms the legitimate news. The signs of our civilization’s demise are all around us, but hope is not lost. In these poems, you will find a map through our dystopia and protection
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The Sheridan Notebook
Brandon McFarlane, Kristine Villeneuve, and Devin Murray
The Sheridan Notebook is an integral component to a series of studies that seek to better understand (1) the impact of adult colouring on creativity and mindfulness, and (2) the educational potential of adult colouring. A growing volume of research suggests there is a noteworthy connection between mindfulness and creativity: mindful individuals through presence, openness, acceptance, and self-inquiry are
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Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary
Michael Brendan Baker
A Companion to Martin Scorsese comprises original essays by prominent scholars on the career of filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The essays examine Scorsese's work within the history of American and world cinema, his work in relation to auteur theory, and his use of popular music, as well as examining Scorsese's use of themes such as violence, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, and race.
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Don't Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something
Paul Vermeersch
Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas, erasures, text collage, and other forms to imagine a post-apocalyptic literature built, or rebuilt, from the rubble of the texts that came before.
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Jainism
Mikal Austin Radford
World Religions: Canadian Perspectives--Eastern Traditions provides students with a solid introduction to the study of world religions and highlights how Canadians have both experienced and shaped these religions. This text covers areas traditionally considered to be foundational, while also including material to address contemporary concerns. By addressing both the historical and the current impacts of religion, students come to
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Religion as Meaning and the Canadian Context
Mikal Austin Radford
Written for Canadians, by Canadians, Our Society provides students with an up-to-date analysis of the major diversities that characterize Canadian society. The contributors use several paradigms to frame their discussion, including inequality, sexuality, regionalism, family, disability, the media, race, class and gender, to challenge students to think critically about the world around them.
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Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On”
Michael Brendan Baker
A study of the National Film Board of Canada's World War II film series in terms of its demonstration of assumed cultural values regarding identity, agency, and "manliness" in the context of the NFB's wartime nation-building project.
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Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
Michael Brendan Baker, Thomas Waugh, and Ezra Winton
Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada examines the ambitious initiative "Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle" that brought together the unlikely partners of government bureaucrats, documentary filmmakers, community activists, and "ordinary" citizens. Launched in 1967 by the National Film Board of Canada and several government agencies with the primary goal of addressing poverty in Canada
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The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Paul Vermeersch
Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or
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