WINNIPEG BOOK TALK: Andrew Burke - Hinterland Remixed

University of Winnipeg - Centennial Hall, 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB
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Join Andrew Burke for a talk on his latest book, Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s. The event will be held in the 3C01 Theatre on the 3rd Floor of Centennial Hall, University of Winnipeg. Hosted by the Department of English.

Andrew Burke is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television, and music to show that Canada never fully left the 1970s behind. Andrew Burke reveals how contemporary artists and filmmakers have revisited the era's cinematic and televisual residues to uncover what has been lost over the years. Investigating how the traces of an analogue past circulate in a digital age, Burke digs through the remnants of 1970s Canadiana and examines key audiovisual works from this overlooked decade, uncovering the period's aspirations, desires, fears, and anxieties. He then looks to contemporary projects that remix, remediate, and reanimate the period. Exploring an idiosyncratic selection of works - from Michael Snow's experimental landscape film La Région Centrale, to SCTV's satirical skewering of network television, to L'Atelier national du Manitoba's video lament for the Winnipeg Jets - this book asks key questions about nation, nostalgia, media, and memory.