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
CA 127 Dance History Research (Fall 2024)
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.
- Pixel soundtracks : exploring video game music through twenty games /
- Cases of citation : on literature in art /
- Fluxus administration : George Maciunas and the art of paperwork /
- Stage rigging handbook /
- Fifteen colonial thefts : a guide to looted African heritage in museums /
- Music films : documentaries, concert films and other cinematic representations of popular music /
- Dance partnering basics : practical skills and inclusive pedagogy /
- More dance improvisations /
- A sense of shifting : queer artists reshaping dance /
- Digital immersive art in China : rejuvenation and cultural presence /
- Broadcasting fidelity : German radio and the rise of early electronic music /
- Cinema and secularism /
- The human shutter : photographs, stereoscopic depth, and moving images /
- Postanarchism and critical art practices /
- The story of propaganda film /
- Queer art : from canvas to club, and the spaces between /
- Militant aesthetics : art activism in the 2st century /
- Spectatorship and the real in French contemporary theatre /
- Eco-disasters in Japanese cinema /
- Undermining : a wild ride through land use, politics, and art in the changing West /
- Passionate work : choreographing a dance career /
- Globalizing the avant-garde /
- Running the room : conversations with women theatre directors /
- Radio Free Stein : Gertrude Stein's parlor plays /
- Art and biotechnology : viral culture from CRISPR to COVID /
- Designing and conducting practice-based research projects : a practical guide for arts student researchers /
- Jennie C. Jones : a free and shifting tonal center /
- The arts of logistics : artistic production in supply chain capitalism /
- Perfection : 400 years of women's quest for beauty /
- Artificial intelligence in the movies : a history /