Author: Jonathan Ball
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442616172
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In John Paizs's 'Crime Wave, ' writer and filmmaker Jonathan Ball offers the first book-length study of this curious Canadian film.
John Paizs's Crime Wave
Author: Jonathan Ball
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442616172
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In John Paizs's 'Crime Wave, ' writer and filmmaker Jonathan Ball offers the first book-length study of this curious Canadian film.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442616172
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In John Paizs's 'Crime Wave, ' writer and filmmaker Jonathan Ball offers the first book-length study of this curious Canadian film.
John Paizs's Crime Wave
Author: Jonathan Ball
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442670002
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave’ examines the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave’s comic plot is simple: aspiring screenwriter Steven Penny, played by Paizs, finds himself able to write only the beginnings and endings of his scripts, but never (as he puts it) “the stuff in-between.” Penny is the classic writer suffering from writer’s block, but the viewer sees him as the (anti)hero in a film told through stylistic parody of 1940s and 50s B-movies, TV sitcoms, and educational films. In John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave,’ writer and filmmaker Jonathan Ball offers the first book-length study of this curious Canadian film, which self-consciously establishes itself simultaneously as following, but standing apart from, American cinematic and television conventions. Paizs’s own story mirrors that of Steven Penny: both find themselves at once drawn to American culture and wanting to subvert its dominance. Exploring Paizs’s postmodern aesthetic and his use of pastiche as a cinematic technique, Ball establishes Crime Wave as an overlooked but important cult classic.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442670002
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave’ examines the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave’s comic plot is simple: aspiring screenwriter Steven Penny, played by Paizs, finds himself able to write only the beginnings and endings of his scripts, but never (as he puts it) “the stuff in-between.” Penny is the classic writer suffering from writer’s block, but the viewer sees him as the (anti)hero in a film told through stylistic parody of 1940s and 50s B-movies, TV sitcoms, and educational films. In John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave,’ writer and filmmaker Jonathan Ball offers the first book-length study of this curious Canadian film, which self-consciously establishes itself simultaneously as following, but standing apart from, American cinematic and television conventions. Paizs’s own story mirrors that of Steven Penny: both find themselves at once drawn to American culture and wanting to subvert its dominance. Exploring Paizs’s postmodern aesthetic and his use of pastiche as a cinematic technique, Ball establishes Crime Wave as an overlooked but important cult classic.
The Canadian Forum
Impossibly Funky
Author: Mike White
Publisher: Bearmanor Media
ISBN: 9781593935474
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit--Paris of the Midwest--came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture. This book collects the best articles from the fifteen year history of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine with sections dedicated to Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, Black Shampoo, Unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, and much more. Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem.
Publisher: Bearmanor Media
ISBN: 9781593935474
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit--Paris of the Midwest--came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture. This book collects the best articles from the fifteen year history of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine with sections dedicated to Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, Black Shampoo, Unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, and much more. Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem.
The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors
Author: Yoram Allon
Publisher: London : Wallflower
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A guide to North American film directors arranged in alphabetical order.
Publisher: London : Wallflower
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A guide to North American film directors arranged in alphabetical order.
Cartoon Capers
Author: Karen Mazurkewich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Independent
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Experimental films
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Experimental films
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Multi Media Reviews Index
Canadian Dreams
Author: Michael Posner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
International Index to Film Periodicals
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description