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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.
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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.
- Kunqu masters on Chinese theatrical performance : a translated and annotated selection from Masters' lectures on one hundred kunqu scenes (Kunqu baizhong, dashi shuoxi), texts originally created and compiled by Yip Siu Hing and the Masters' Studio, and translated and annotated here kind permission /
- Sound experiments : the music of the AACM /
- Situated in translations : cultural communities and media practices /
- Colonial legacies : contemporary lens-based art and the Democratic Republic of Congo /
- No jurisdiction : legal, political, and aesthetic disorder in post-9/11 genre cinema /
- Walled gardens : autonomy, automation, and art after the internet /
- Out of breath : vulnerability of air in contemporary art /
- Re-choreographing cortical & cartographic maps : going West to find East going East to find West /
- The cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos : films, form, philosophy /
- Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy : Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang /
- Reel Change : a History of British Cinema from the Projection Box.
- Atmospheres of projection : environmentality in art and screen media /
- Transforming space over time : set design and visual storytelling with Broadway's legendary directors /
- Are We Living in a Disaster Movie? : How Genre Conventions Predict the Plot of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Measure : in pursuit of musical time /
- Opera cinema : a new cultural experience /
- Behind the angel of history : the "Angelus novus" and its interleaf /
- The Owls Are Not What They Seem : Artist As Ethologist.
- Fluxus as a network of friends, strangers, and things : the agency of chance collaborations /
- The new wave cinema in Iran : a critical study /
- Free jazz /
- Thinking revolution through film : on audiovisual stagings of political change /
- The French new wave : critical landmarks /
- Escape to Berlin : a travel memoir = Flucht nach Berlin : eine Reiseerinnerung /
- The art of activism and the activism of art /
- Visual activism in the 21st century : art, protest and resistance in an uncertain world /
- The maternal, digital subjectivity, and the aesthetics of interruption /
- African art now : fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century /
- Parasite : a philosophical exploration /
- Infrastructure and Form The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008.