In Word & Print:
Joan Nicks
Jeannette Sloniowski
Joan Nicks
COMMUNITY (selected):
Cross-Border Researchers' meeting, State University
of New York at Buffalo (November (2003).
Research profile on Niagara Falls Movies and Theatres
Project. Lundy's Lane Historical Society, All Saints Church, Niagara
Falls (October 2003).
Research profile on Niagara Falls Movies and Theatres
Project. Special Collections, James A. Gibson Library, Brock University,
Donor reception, St. Catharines, with J. Sloniowski (August 2003).
"The Queen Theatre." Ulyssean Society,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, with J. Sloniowski (October 2003).
"Last Showing Tonight: Movie Theatres
and Local Pasts." Popular Culture Niagara Colloquium, Brock
University, St. Catharines, with J. Sloniowski (Spring 2002).
CITY-TV Breakfast Television. Interviewed on issues
of popular culture, Toronto (2002).
"Fusion Culture." Two Days of Canada
2000 conference, co-programmer and organizer. Brock University,
St. Catharines (November 2000).
"The Politics of Glamour: Third World
Scenarios for Worldly Femmes." Politics Department, Brock
University, St. Catharines (1995).
"Woman as Popular Image." Brock University
Student Union Gender Issues Forum, Brock University, St. Catharines
(1991).
"Being the Image: Of Lookers and Layabouts
in Popular Magazines." International Women's Week, Brock
University, St.Catharines (1989).
"Gestures of Glamour Imagery." For
Torontopolis cast, Brock University, St. Catharines (1988).
"Pornography as Cultural Product,"
Brock University, St. Catharines (1983).
"Not A Love Story: A Film about
Pornography."
Arts Against Repression Series, Brock University, St. Catharines
(1982).
"Woman-Image-Sight: Pornography as Visual
Language." Social Justice Committee, Public Library, Niagara
Falls (1990).
"Paper Pets: Codes of the Posed Woman."
Women's Place Annual Meeting, St.Catharines (1988).
"Pornography and Censorship." University
Women's Club, St. Catharines (1983).
"The Meaning of Soap Operas." Interview,
CKTB-radio, St. Catharines (1981).
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CONFERENCES (selected):
"Something Else Besides the Famous Falls:
Famous Players Canada's Footprints in Downtown Niagara." Niagara
Symposium, Niagara Falls (2003), with J. Sloniowski.
"Movie Theatres in Niagara Falls Exhibition
and Design." Revisioning Boundaries: New Directions in
Communications Studies in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo (2003), with J. Sloniowski.
"From Famous Players Showcase to Ghost
Theatre: 'The Art of Pleasing the Public'." Popular Culture
Association annual conference, Toronto (2002), with J. Sloniowski.
"The Seneca’ and Local Theatre
History."
Film Studies Association of Canada, Humanities and Social Sciences
Congress, Edmonton (2000), with J. Sloniowski.
"The Seneca’ Movie Theatre: Decorative
Origins and Issues of Popular Identity." Two Days of Canada,
Brock University, St.Catharines (1998), with J. Sloniowski
"Navigating Dreams without Nationhood:
Straight Up and Youth-Television." Film Studies Association
of Canada, Memorial University, St. John's (1997).
"Navigating Dreams without Nationhood:
Straight Up and Youth-Television." Two Days of Canada,
Brock University, St. Catharines (1996).
"Gross Misconduct's
Hockey Hulk: Skating Backwards into the Legacy of the Black Maria.
Two Days of Canada, Brock University, St. Catharines (1995).
"Gross Misconduct's
Hockey Hulk: Skating Backwards into the Legacy of the Black Maria." Film Studies
Association of Canada, U.Q.A.M., Montreal (1995).
"Cultural Voice and Cultural Resistance
Across Borders." Cross-Border Culture Shopping Symposium: Cultural
Exchange Under Free Trade, SUNY/ Fredonia (1992).
"Woman as Spectacle." Censorship
and Pornography Symposium, Brock University, St. Catharines (1987).
"Structural Strategies in Smirnoff Advertising."
Popular Culture Association annual conference, Pittsburgh (1979).
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PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Nicks, Joan. "DaVinci's
Inquest" and "This
Hour Has 22 Minutes." In
Encyclopaedia of Television, 2nd edition,
ed. Horace Newcomb (forthcoming).
Nicks, Joan, and Jeannette Sloniowski, eds. Slippery
Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian
Culture. Waterloo: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 2002.
Nicks, Joan. "Straight
Up and Youth-Television:
Navigating Dreams Without Nationhood," in Slippery
Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture, ed. Joan Nicks and Jeannette
Sloniowski. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002: 141-157.
Nicks, Joan. "Facelifts." In The
St. James Encyclopaedia of Popular Culture (5 vols.), eds. Tom Pendergast
and Linda Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.
Nicks, Joan. "Hemlines." In The
St. James Encyclopaedia of Popular Culture (5 vols.), eds. Tom Pendergast
and Linda Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.
Nicks, Joan. "Hot Pants." In The
St. James Encyclopaedia of Popular Culture (5 vols.), eds. Tom Pendergast
and Linda Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.
Nicks, Joan. "Singin'
in the Rain." In
The St. James Encyclopaedia of Popular
Culture (5 vols.), eds. Tom
Pendergast and Linda Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James
Press, 1999.
Nicks, Joan. "Codco." In
Encyclopaedia of Television (3 Vols.). ed. Horace Newcomb. Chicago
and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997: Vol. 1, 388-389.
Nicks, Joan. "Degrassi." (The
Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi
Junior High, Degrassi High, Degrassi
Talks). In
Encyclopaedia of Television (3 Vols.). ed. Horace Newcomb. Chicago
and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, Vol 1, 472-474.
Nicks, Joan. "Crossing into Eden's Storehouse."
Textual Studies in Canada 2 (Spring 1992): 85-97.
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Jeannette
Sloniowski
COMMUNITY (selected)
Cross-Border Researchers' meeting, State University
of New York at Buffalo (November 2003).
Crime in Canada: Law and Dis/Order, Two Days of Canada
conference co-organizer and respondent to D. Wrigglesworth and V.
Gill on the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Metropolitan Toronto
Central Reference Library, with M. Rose (November 2003).
"The Tivoli Theatre." The Ulyssean
Society, Niagara-On-The-Lake, with J.
Nicks (October 2003).
Research profile on Niagara Falls Movie Theatre Project,
Niagara Special Collections, James A. Gibson Library, Donor reception,
Brock University, St. Catharines, with J. Nicks (August 2003).
"Crime Fiction Canada," Roundtable
on the Humanities and Computing at Brock, the Humanities Research
Institute, Brock University (May 2003).
The Cameron Hollyer Memorial Lecture, on http://www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada.ca/
[JOE, MAKE THIS LINK LIVE], Metropolitan Toronto Central Reference
Library, with M. Rose (March 2003).
Niagara Popular Culture Research Group, Symposium
on Researching Popular Culture in Niagara, Brock University (May
2002).
Plato Workshop, presentation on Crime, Mystery and
Detective Fiction, St.
Catharines Public Library, with M. Rose (February 2002).
"Living in the Hyperreal: The Problem
of Television Documentary and The Valour and the Horror." Brock
University Panel on The Valour and the Horror (February
1994).
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CONFERENCES (selected)
"Dragnet and
the Fifties Semi-Documentary."
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA (March 2004).
"The Niagara Theatres Project," Re-visioning
Boundaries: New Directions in Communications Studies in Canada conference,
Wilfrid Laurier University, with J. Nicks (April 2003).
"Something Else Besides the Famous Falls:
Famous Players Canada's Footprints in Downtown Niagara." Association
for Canadian Studies, Niagara:
A Multidisciplinary Symposium, Niagara Falls, with J. Nicks (April
2003).
"Home Sweet Havoc: Howard Engel's Niagara."
Niagara: A Multidisciplinary Symposium, Association for Canadian
Studies, with J. Nicks, Niagara Falls (April 2003).
"'Just the Facts Ma’am': Dragnet,
Documentary and Fifties TV." Film Studies Association of Canada
annual conference, Halifax, N.S. (May 2003).
"From Famous Players Showcase to Ghost
Theatre: 'The Art of Pleasing the Public'." Popular Culture
Association annual conference, with J. Nicks, Toronto (March 2002).
"Performing the Master Narratives: Michael
Rubbo's Waiting for Fidel." Film Studies Association of
Canada annual conference, Quebec City (May 2001).
"Fusion Culture." Two Days of Canada
conference, Brock University, co-programmer and organizer, 2000.
"The Seneca Movie Theatre: Decorative
Origins and Issues of Popular Identity." Two Days of Canada
conference, with J. Nicks, Brock University, St. Catharines (November
1998).
"What is Docudrama?" Film Studies
Association of Canada annual conference, Memorial University, St.
John’s, NFLD (June 1997).
"Looking at Canadian Docudrama: The
Boys of St. Vincent," Society for
the Study of Canadian Radio and Television conference, Brock University,
St. Catharines, (May 1996).
"Rebel Without A Cause, Canadian Style:
John Smith's Teen Films." Two Days of Canada annual conference,
Brock University, St. Catharines (November 1996).
"Probing the Limits of Representation:
The Grotesque and Bunuel's Las Hurdes." Film Studies Association
of Canada annual conference, UQAM, Montreal (June 1995).
"Communicating Canadian Ideology in Michael
Rubbo's Waiting for Fidel." Two Days of Canada annual conference,
Brock University, St. Catharines (November 1995).
"Living in the Hyperreal: The Problem
of Television Documentary and The
Valour and the Horror." Film
Studies Association of Canada annual conference, University
of Calgary (June 1994).
"Violations: The Boys of St. Vincent."
Two Days of Canada annual conference, Brock University, St. Catharines
(November 1994).
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PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "The
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter." In Understanding Film Genres (forthcoming).
Rose, Marilyn, and Jeannette Sloniowski. "The
Crime Fiction Canada Project." The
Mystery Reader's Journal (forthcoming).
Rose, Marilyn, and Jeannette Sloniowski. "Home
Sweet Havoc: Howard Engel's Niagara." Journal
of Canadian Studies (forthcoming).
Nicks, Joan and Jeannette Sloniowski, eds. Slippery
Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture. Waterloo: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 2002.
Szuchewycz, Bohdan, and Jeannette Sloniowski, eds.
Canadian Communications: Issues in Contemporary
Media and Culture,
2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson International, 1999 (third printing,
Summer of 2002).
Szuchewycz, Bohdan, and Jeannette Sloniowski, eds.
Canadian Communications: Issues in Contemporary
Media and Culture.
Toronto: Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Las
Hurdes and the Political
Efficacy of the Grotesque." Canadian Journal of Film Studies
7, no. 2 (Autumn 1998): 30-48.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "A Cross-Border Study
of the Teen Genre: The Case of John N. Smith." Journal
of Popular Film and Television 25, no. 3 (Fall
1997): 130-137.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Popularizing History:
The Valour and the Horror." In Slippery
Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture, ed. Jeannette Sloniowski and
Joan Nicks. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002:
159-174.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Violations: The
Boys of St. Vincent." Canadian
Journal of Communications, 21, no.
3 (Summer 1996): 365-379.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Not
a Love Story: A Film About Pornography." In The Encyclopedia of Censorship,
ed. Derek Jones. London: Fitzroy Dearborne, 2002).
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "The
Boys of St. Vincent."
In The St. James Encyclopedia of Censorship, ed. Derek Jones. London:
Fitzroy Dearborne, 2002.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "The
Big Sleep."
In The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture, ed. Tom and Sara
Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000: Vol. 1,
pp. 250-251.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Cleopatra." In
The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture, ed. Tom and Sara
Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000: Vol. 1,
p. 529.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Docudrama." In
The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture, ed. Tom and Sara
Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000: Vol. 1,
pp. 741-742.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Double
Indemnity."
In The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture, ed. Tom and Sara
Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000: Vol.
1, pp. 751-753
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Intolerance." In
The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture, ed. Tom and Sara
Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000: Vol.
2, p. 498.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Mean
Streets."
In The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture, ed Tom and Sara
Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000: Vol. 3,
pp. 336-337.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "The
Postman Always Rings Twice." In The
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture,
ed. Tom and Sara Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press,
2000: Vol. 4, pp. 97-98
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "Sunset
Boulevard."
In The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture, ed. Tom and Sara
Pendergast. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000: Vol.
4, p. 579.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "The
Boys of St. Vincent."
In The Encyclopedia of Television, ed. Horace Newcombe. London:
Fitzroy Dearborne, 1997: Vol. 1, pp. 208-210.
Sloniowski, Jeannette. "The
Valour and the Horror."
In The Encyclopedia of Television,
ed. Horace Newcombe. London: Fitzroy Dearborne, 1997: Vol. 1,
pp. 749-750.
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