I’m delighted to report that University of Toronto Press has lowered the price of the hardcover and eBook versions of Public Representations: Screen Stories, Narrative, and the Public Sphere to $54.95 CAD. Here is the link to UTP. Amazon Canada has followed suit, lowering the price for the Kindle edition to $52.20 CAD. Here is the link to Amazon.

Public Representations is also available through open access at the UTP website, both chapter-by-chapter and its entirety as a PDF. Readers may however prefer the hardcover, eBook, or Kindle formats, and the price reduction makes them more affordable.

Public Representations, by Beth Herst and me, published in April 2026,explores how popular cultural narratives, specifically film, and broadcast, cable, and streaming series represent politics, governance, and the public sphere. Its focus is equally on how these representations function within cultural discourse, arguing for the role that narratives can play in shaping how citizens experience, respond to, and engage with politics, governance, and the public sphere. It analyzes a selection of films, broadcast, cable, and streaming series from the U.S. and the U.K. (and in two instances other European countries) between 2010 and 2020 and Canadian films and series from 1960 to the present.