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Cultural Studies Student Library

Did you know that most departments at Trent University have additional resources available, in addition to those at Bata library? Cultural Studies is one of the departments that have a resource library available to students. Check out the list below of our available:

  • Books
  • Student Help Books
  • Articles
  • Movies

How to Access Books

The books are available at the Cultural Studies office, and can be signed out for a two week period. If a student needs a book for any time in addition to the two weeks then they are encouraged to come in and sign the book out again.

Books

A Basic History of Western Art
Author: Janson, Davies, hofichter, Jacobs, Roberts, Simon

A Brief History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking

Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (Contemporary Conflicts)
Author: James S. Frideres

Adaptation: Studying Film & Literature
Author: John M. Desmond & Peter Hawkes

A Discourse on Inequality (2 copies)
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A History of Film
Author: Virginia Wright Wexman

After the Lovedeath
Author: Lawrence Kramer

Agony of the American Left, the
Author: Christopher Lasch

A Man for all Seasons
Author: Robert Bolt

An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Culture
Author: Ann Cvetkovich

An Essay on Liberation
Author: Herbert Marcuse

Art of Theatre: Then and Now, the
Author: William Missouri Downs, Lou Anne Wright, Erik Ramsey

A Silent Thunder
Author: Toni Onley

A Short History of Movies
Author: Gerald Mast & Bruce F. Kawin

Basic Political Writings, the
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
Author: Mary Anne Staniszewski

Beyond God the Father
Author: Mary Daly

Black, Bright and Grey
Author: Longmans

Bluest Eye, the
Author: Toni Morrison

Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the
Author: Milan Kundera

Bomb the Suburbs
Author: William Upski Wimsatt

Bursting the Foundations
Author: Tom Morris

Camera Lucida (2 copies)
Author: Ronald Barthes

Capitalizing on Culture 
Author: Shane Gunster

Captains of Consciousness
Author: Stuart Ewen

Challenge of Youth, the
Editor: Erik H. Erikson

Character and Culture
Author: Sigmund Freud

Civilization and its Discontents (2 copies)
Author: Sigmund Freud

Clear, Correct, Creative; A Handbook for Writers of Academic Prose
Author: Karen, Taylor, Heather Avery, Lucille Strath

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Author: David Wojnarowicz

Communications in Canadian Society
Author: Craig McKie

Communist Manifesto, the (2copies)
Author: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engles

Comparing Public Policies: United States, Soviet Union & Europe
Author: Siegel and Weinberg

Complete Plays: Blasted/Phaedra's Love/Cleansed Crave/4.48 Psychosis/Skn
Author: Sarah Kane

Confusions (3 copies)
Author: Alan Ayckbourn

Copenhagen
Author: Michael Frayn

Crying of Lot 49, the
Author: Thomas Pynchon

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction (4 copies)
Author: John Storey

Culture and Context
Author: W. David Hall

De Profunds and Other Writings (2 copies)
Author: Oscar Wilde

Descant Winter Reader
Author: Jane Rowland, Rosemary Sullivan, Aberto Manguel, Karen Mulhallen, Eric Beddows

Divided Self, the (2 copies)
Author R. D. Lang

Division of Labour in Society, the
Author: Emile Durkheim

Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman
Author: Paul du Gay, Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, Hugh Mackay & Keith

Don Quixote
Author: Kathy Acker

Dread of Difference, the
Author: Barry Keith Grant

Dr. Faustus
Author: Christopher Marlowe

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and The Communist Manifesto
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Economy and Society
Author: Lee, Genosko, Merrin, Christodoulidis, Osborne

End of History and The Last Man, the
Author: Francis Fukuyama

Erring
Author: Mark C. Taylor (2 copies)

Essential Theatre, the
Author: Oscar G. Brockett & Robert J. Ball

Expressiveness of the Body: and the Diversity of Greek and Chinese Medicine, the
Author: Shigehisa Kuriyama

Experiencing the Art of Theatre
Author: William Missouri Downs, Lou Anne Wright, Erik Ramsey

False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes
Author: Thomas Hoving

Fashion System, the
Author: Roland Barthes

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (4 copies)
Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Feminine Sexuality
Author: Jacques Lacan

Fiddlehead Poetry, the
Author: Ross Leckie

Film as Social Practice (2 copies)
Author: Graeme Turner

Film Theory and Criticism
Author: Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen

For Your Own Good
Author: Alice Miller

French Left. the 
Author: Arthur Hirsh

From Rousseau to Lenin
Author: Lucio Colletti

German Ideology, the
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Globalization, Development and the Mass Media
Author: Colin Sparks

Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift

Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media
Editors: Gaye Tuchman, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, James Benét

Hedda Gabler
Author: Henrik Ibsen

Herculine Barbin
Author: Michel Foucault

Her Majesty's Government does not want you to know about the Life of Anthony Cavendish
Author: Bill Buford

History of Sexuality, the (2 copies)
Author: Michael Foucault

Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory
Author: Irving M. Zeitlin

Inside Terrorism
Author: Bruce Hoffman

Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olawudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, the
Author: Olaudah Equiano

Interpersonal Communications for Canadians
Author: Jennifer MacLennan

Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication
Author: Ronald B. Alder, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld, Russell F. Procotor, Constance Winder

Invention of Hetero Sexuality, the
Author: Jonathan Ned Katz

Japan of Today, the

Lacan and Postfeminism
Author: Elizabeth Wright

Leaves of Spring, the
Author: Aaron Esterson

Leisure the Basis of Culture
Author: Joseph Pieper

Life and Death of Harriett Frean, the (3 copies)
Author: May Sinclair

Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert

Madness and Civilization
Author: Michel Foucault

Magyar Idezetek Konyve
Author: Erki

Mass Communications in Canada (3 copies)
Author: Rowland Lorimer & Mike Gasher

Media and Minorities: Presenting Diversity in Canada
Author: Augie Fleras & Jean Lock Kunz

Media Journal: Reading a Writing about Popular Culture (2 copies)
Author: Joseph Harris, Jay Rosen, Gary Carpas

Media Scapes (2 copies)
Author: Paul Attallah & Leslie Regan Shade

Memo form Belgium "Fact and Comments" vol 1

Memo from Belgium "Fact and Comments" vol 2

Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stories, the
Author: Franz Kafka

Middle East and South Asia: Comparing Cities, the
Author: Kamran Asdar Ali, Matina Rieker

Modernity at Large
Author: Arjun Appadurai

Modern Literary Theory
Author: Philip Rice & Patricia Waugh

Modern Theories of Drama
Author: George W. Brandt

Mrs. Dalloway (2 copies)
Author: Virginia Woolf

Never to Return
Author: Esther Tusquets

New Atlantis and the Great Instauration Bacon
Author: Jerry Weinberger

New Left Review
Author: Peter Hallward

On Her Own Ground: Madam C.J. Walker
Author: A'LeLia Bundles

Other Sides of Reality: Myths, Visions and Fantasies, the
Author: Cummins, Green and Verhulst

Performance Studies
Author: Richard Schechner

Philosophy: Idiot's Guide
Author: Jay Stevenson

Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito
Author: F.S. Church

Plato: Republic
Author: Robin Waterfield

Plays for the Theatre
Author: Oscar G. Brockett, Robert J. Ball

Politics of Nonviolent: Part One Power and Struggle, the
Author: Gene Sharp

Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader, the
Author: David Brackett

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Author: Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the
Author: Max Weber

Pure and the Impure, the
Author: Colette

Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, the
Author: Lizabeth Goodman

Rules of Sociological Method, the
Author: Emile Durkheim 

Rural Revolt in Mexico
Author: Daniel Nugent

Sanity, Madness and the Family
Author: R. D. Lang and A. Esterson

Second Skin: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (2 copies)
Author: Jay Prosser

Sex and Castle in America
Author: Carol Andreas

Sexuality
Author: Jeffery Weeks

Sexual/Textual Politics (2 copies)
Author: Toril Moi

Science Fiction Studies #78

Science Fiction Studies #80

Silent City, the (2 copies)
Author: Kenzaburo Oe

Social Construction of Reality, the
Author: Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann

Sociology of Postmodernism
Author: Scott Lash

Social Organization of Leisure in Human Society, the
Author: Neil H. Check Jr. and William R. Birch Jr.

Socrates' Ancestor
Author: Indra Kagis McEwen

Student Protest
Author: Gerald F. McGuigan

Suicide
Author: Emile Durkheim

Theban Plays, the
Author: Sophocles

Thinking it Through: A Practical Guide to Academic Essay Writing

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (3 copies)
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Tolkien Reader, the
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Topia

Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ (8 copies)
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Understanding Human Communication
Author: Ronald B. Alder, George Rodman, Alexander Sevigny

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (2 copies)
Author: Marshall McLuhan

Utopia
Author: Thomas More

Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtual Freedom
Author: Sean Kane

Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, the
Author: W.B. Worthen

Waiting for Godot
Author: Samuel Beckett

Ways of Seeing
Author: John Berger

Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary

Well of Loneliness, the
Author: Radclyffe Hall

Wild Seed
Author: Octaviae Butler

Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, the
Author: Arthur Kroker

Women in Today’s Economic Crisis
Author: The Women’s Work Project

Working Papers on Pornography and Prostitution
Author: M. El Komos

World Cinema: Critical Approaches
Author: John Hill, and Pamela Church Gibson

World is a Text, the
Author: Jonathan Silverman & Dean Rader

Writing and Difference
Author: Jaques Derrida

Written on the Body
Author: Jeanette Winterson

Student Help Books

  • Avoiding Plagiarism (6 copies)
  • Effective Seminar Presentations
  • How to Improve Student Learning
  • Know your Course Readings
  • Learning to do Well
  • Listening and Note Taking Skills
  • Longer Poems
  • Managing your Time
  • Notes of the Preparation of Essays in the Arts and Sciences (2 copies)
  • Prize Winning Essays II - English Literature
  • Proposals and Annotated Bibliographies
  • Surviving the First Term
  • The Comma: A Visual Guide
  • The Essay: A Visual Guide
  • Thinking Critically: Exercises and Examples
  • Thinking Critically: An Introduction
  • Writing Academic Reviews

Articles (not for loan, must photocopy)

Celine Dion, National Unity and the English - Language Press Canada
Author: David Young

Beyond the Margins: Re- Framing Canadaian Art History
Author: Patricia L. Belier

Discourses on Communication Technologies in Canadian and European Broadcasting Policy Debates
Author: David Young

Emancipating Desire and the Messianic Promise
Author: Diane Enns

International Studies in Philosophy
Author: Augusto Guzza & Giorgia Tonelli

National Encounters: Narrating Canada and the Plurality of Difference

Author: Katarzyna Rukszto

On Display: Portraits of Seventeenth-Century French Men-Midwives

Author: Lianne Mctavish

Out of Bounds: Preverse Longings, Transgressive Desire and the Limits of Multiculturalism
Author: Katarzyna Rukszto

Perspective of New Music
Author: Nikolas Kompridis

Postcolonialism and the Deconstruction Scenario: Representing Gaytri Spivak
Author: Lianne McTavish

The Social Constructions of Gender: Female Cannibalism in Papua New Guinea
Author: Ilka Thiessen

"We Flesh" Re-membering the Body Beloved
Author: Diane Enns

Movies 

VHS

  • Ellen Waterman
  • Life Under Mike
  • Nocturnal Awareness
  • The Devil's Toy
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Swan Lake
  • Zero Patience

DVD

  • 28 Days Later
  • A Shadow You Soon Will Be
  • Burnt Money
  • Death of Klinghoffer
  • El Cometa
  • In The Country Where Nothing Happens
  • Let's Go With Pancho Villa
  • mcluhan's wake
  • New Rose Hotel
  • Rosie the Riveter

16mm

  • Jenny, Zeke, Anna, Nicole

The Experience

  • News and Events
  • First Year in Cultural Studies
  • Popular Courses
  • Cultural Studies Student Library
  • Fourth Year Courses for 2021-2022

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  • Media Studies
  • Political Studies
  • EMM Lab

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