Press Publishing: 3010 books
Musical Canada
Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
The foremost historian of Canadian music and musical life, Helmut Kallmann is the inspiration for this volume. Its twenty-three contributions, written by prominent composers and writers representing many different regions and both national languages, present a cross-section of current work in historical...
More of a Man
Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed...
Writing with a Vengeance
The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote...
Testimonies and Secrets
The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844–1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of...
Schooling in Modernity
The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic...
Post-TV
Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the late 2000s, television no longer referred to an object to be watched; it had transformed into content to be streamed, downloaded, and shared. Tens of millions of viewers have “cut the cord,” abandoned cable television, tuned into online services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, and also...
Marco Bellocchio
The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's...
Mike
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Two: 1948-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. In the second volume of his memoirs, he provides a first-person account of the busy and challenging decade that followed his entry...
Stages of Reality
Theatricality in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality establishes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stage and screen media. This comprehensive volume explores the significance of theatricality within critical discourse about cinema and television.
Stages...
Queering Bathrooms
Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The intersection of public washrooms and gender has become increasingly politicized in recent years: queer and trans folk have been harassed for allegedly using the 'wrong' washroom, while widespread campaigns have advocated for more gender-neutral facilities. In Queering Bathrooms, Sheila L. Cavanagh...
Transpeople
Repudiation, Trauma, Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines...
Wisdom, Justice and Charity
Canadian Social Welfare through the Life of Jane B. Wisdom, 1884-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
One of Canada’s first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth century. Competent, thoughtful, and trusted, she had a knack for being in important places at pivotal moments. Wisdom’s transnational career took her...
Sir Charles God Damn
The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long...
by Carl Spadoni, Judith Skelton Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Robertson Davies (1913–1995), one of Canada’s most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his first venture...