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The co-editor of the Queer Film Classics series, Thomas Waugh, engages two authors of new books in the series about their sense of the state of queer cinema

by Thomas Waugh, Maria San Filippo and Russell Sheaffer

Two of the most recent titles in McGill-Queen’s University Press’s ongoing Queer Film Classics series are on the films Read More >

In compiling this list of recent titles, we were stunned by the immense diversity contained within the “Art Book” category. We are thrilled to share works of art, photography, critique, and history that span decades and cross oceans. Featuring books published in collaboration with the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation and the Read More >

Quill & Quire recently reviewed our newly released book Making out in the Mainstream, GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle.

The following is an excerpt from the review:

There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In this historical and ethnographic study … Read More >

Just in time for the Oscars, a special blog post today from our Publicity Assistant, Amy Hemond. Amy has put together a reading list of MQUP titles that complement and share common ground with some of the 2016 Best Picture nominated films. Grab your popcorn…and your reading glasses!

The 88th Academy Awards are just around the corner, set for broadcast on February … Read More >

With special screenings from 8-9 PM:

We are Young (1967) by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, 6 screen film digitally reconstituted by Library and Archives Canada
Canada is my Piano (1967) by George Dunning, 3 screen animation digitally reconstituted by Library and Archives Canada
By the Time We Got to Expo (2015) A NEW FILM by Philip … Read More >

Join us next Wednesday for a book launch at Cinémathèque Québécoise for

INSIDE THE HISTORICAL FILM
By Bruno Ramirez

5:30 PM – cocktail and book signing
7:30 PM – lecture and screening

From cinema’s beginnings filmmakers have turned to the past for their stories, so much so that in many ways our historical culture is shaped more … Read More >

Please join us for the upcoming book launch of

REIMAGINING CINEMA: The Films of Expo 67
Edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Janine Marchessault

The launch, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, follows an afternoon symposium organized by CINEMAexpo67.

2:00 pm – Graeme Ferguson, IMAX-inventor and director of the original Polar Life, in conversation with Scott Mackenzie.

3:30 pm – Roundtable … Read More >

TOMORROW at 5PM: Come out to the vernissage for Polar Life, a multi-screen film installation at La Cinémathèque Québecoise curated by Monika Kin Gagnon, co-editor of the forthcoming release, Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67.

The installation, on display from October 9 – November 2, is a digital recreation of the original film by IMAX-inventer, Graeme Ferguson, which was showcased at … Read More >

John Dunning’s memoir, You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten, is getting lots of buzz leading up to the Toronto book launch at Ben McNally Books this Thursday! Quill & Quire gave the memoir a starred review:

The best filmmaker memoirs are the ones that feel like movies themselves, whether it’s the epic, melodramatic sweep … Read More >

The Montreal Gazette posted an excerpt this week from You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten: A Memoir by John Dunning and Bill Brownstein, where the late film pioneer recalls working at his family’s movie theatre in Ville Émard.

The new Cinepix partners, André Link and John Dunning, kick back at Link’s cottage. (Photo courtesy of McGill-Queen’s … Read More >