Hinterland Remixed

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"Hinterland Remixed is as engaging as it is innovative and intelligent. I cannot overstate the quality, timeliness, and elegance of this work." Jennifer VanderBurgh, Saint Mary's University "We need this book. Not only does Hinterland Remixed provide extremely compelling readings of 1970s objects and contemporary works that revisit this decade's artifacts; it accomplishes the interpretive goal of bringing the past inside the present." Peter Urquhart, Wilfrid Laurier University "Hinterland Remixed is an elegant paean to a decade some prefer to forget. As Burke writes in his coda, "The 1970s are still with us" ... it remains possible to harness the decade's energies to positive ends." Border Crossings

"Written with force and clarity, Hinterland Remixed now stands as a key text for students and scholars invested in questions of media, memory, and culture in Canada. It is accessible in a way that will serve non-experts yet robust in its theoretical underpinning so that it may inspire further research. It stands alongside recent work including Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (2014), edited by Zoe Druick and Gerda Cammaer, and Darrel Varga's Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic (2015) in its thoughtful examination of marginalized and overlooked works within Canadian film and media studies history. It is quite simply a masterful work of cultural history that synthesizes the canon of Western popular culture and media studies in service of a deeper probe of the role media objects play in our understanding of - and attachment to - a Canadian historical past and present." Canadian Journal of Film Studies