Contact info
If you need help, please contact Sylvia Roberts, Liaison Librarian for Communication & Contemporary Arts at 778.782.3681 or sroberts@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.
This guide lists selected print and electronic information sources available to SFU faculty, students, and staff. Check the SFU Library Catalogue to find additional materials.
Course reserves
Search for reserves in the Library Catalogue by course number or instructor. Course reserves for Contemporary Arts (prefix CA) can be found by searching Course ID contains CA.
Topic and course guides
FPA 127 History of Dance from the 20th Century to the Present (Fall 2021)
New resources
Lists of new Contemporary Arts resources added to the SFU Library are updated on a monthly basis. You can also browse through lists of all resources added to the library within the last week or the last month.
- Meryl McMaster : as immense as the sky /
- Nilbar Güreş : sour as a lemon /
- Crisis : the theatre responds /
- The Edinburgh companion to modernism in contemporary theatre /
- Speculation /
- Complete amateur : a pro's guide to become more amateur /
- Lygia Pape : Tecelares /
- Remember the details /
- The Blaxploitation horror film : adaptation, appropriation and the gothic /
- The entanglement : how art and philosophy make us what we are /
- Contemporary screen ethics : absences, identities, belonging, looking anew /
- Oceans /
- Oscar wars : a history of Hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears /
- Appreciating melodrama : theory and practice in Indian cinema and television /
- Biomechanics of Dance : Applications of Classical Mechanics /
- Radical intimacies : designing non-extractive relationalities /
- Shocking cinema of the 70s /
- Nalini Malani : the rebellion of the dead = la rébellion des morts : retrospective 1969-2018 /
- The form of the book book /
- Zines /
- What film is good for : on the values of spectatorship /
- Pilvi Takala : Close watch /
- Free play : improvisation in life and art /
- Marinella Senatore /
- Unbelonging : Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics /
- Directing the Play /
- Navigating from the white anthropocene to the black chthulucene /
- The political Christopher Nolan : liberalism and the Anglo-American vision /
- Public memory, public art : reflections on monuments and memorial art today /
- Mike Nelson : extinction beckons /