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
World dance
FPA 227 -- Dance History Research
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.
Cinema expanded : avant-garde film in the age of intermedia
Performative inter-actions in African theatre 3 : making space, rethinking drama and theatre in Africa.
African somaesthetics : cultures, feminisms, politics
Performative inter-actions in African theatre.
The art of pure cinema : Hitchcock and his imitators
Look for me all around you : Sharjah biennial 14
Vampire films around the world : essays on the cinematic undead of sixteen cultures
The life of forms in art : modernism, organism, vitality
Chance, phenomenology and aesthetics : Heidegger, Derrida and contingency in twentieth century art
Hip hop en français : an exploration of hip-hop culture in the francophone world
The natural body in somatics dance training
Sonic intimacy : reggae sound systems, jungle pirate radio and grime Youtube music videos
Humana Festival 2018 : the complete plays
Cinema, MD : a history of medicine on screen
Math fundamentals for audio
American avant-garde cinema's philosophy of the in-between
The Oxford handbook of history and material culture
Guerrilla Girls : the art of behaving badly
Love and information
Sound design is the new score : theory, aesthetics, and erotics of the integrated soundtrack
When the world laughs : film comedy East and West
Rock star / movie star : power and performance in cinematic rock stardom
The Bloomsbury handbook of rock music research
The metabolic museum
African Americans and Africa : a new history
The landscapes of Western movies : a history of filming on location, 1900-1970
Bad girls, dirty bodies : sex, performance and safe femininity
International Yearbook of Futurism Studies.
Dancing women : choreographing corporeal histories of popular Hindi cinema
The proximity of other skins : ethical intimacy in global cinema