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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
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"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
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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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