Image and territory : essays on Atom Egoyan / Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burwell, Jennifer.

Tschofen, Monique.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egoyan, Atom, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.

Egoyan, Atom.

Egoyan, Atom, 1960-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Essays on Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2007]

Summary:

In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless appealed to wide audiences around the world. Films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have earned him international cult status as one of the most revered of all contemporary directors, and Egoyan's forays into installation art and opera have provided evidence of his versatility and confirmed his talents.

Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan is both scholarly and accessible. Indispensable for the scholar, student, and fan, this collection of new essays and interviews from leading film and media scholars unpacks the central arguments, tensions, and paradoxes of his work and traces their evolution. It also locates his work within larger intellectual and artistic currents to show how he takes up and answers critical debates in politics, philosophy, and aesthetics. Most importantly, it addresses how Egoyan's work is both intellectually engaging and emotionally moving.

Contents:

Introduction In Media Res: Atom Egoyan's Utopian Praxis / Monique Tschofen, Jennifer Burwell 1

Section 1 Media Technologies, Aura, and Redemption

1 Artifice and Artifact: Technology and the Performance of Identity / Jennifer Burwell, Monique Tschofen 21

2 Fetish and Aura: Modes of Technological Engagement in Family Viewing / Elena del Río 29

3 The Adjuster: Playing House / William Beard 53

4 The Thirteenth Church: Musical Structures in Atom Egoyan's Calendar / Katrin Kegel 79

5 The Passing of Celluloid, the Endurance of the Image: Egoyan, Steenbeckett, and Krapp's Last Tape / David L. Pike 101

Section 2 Diasporic Histories and the Exile of Meaning

6 Mobile Subjectivity and Micro-territories: Placing the Diaspora / Jennifer Burwell, Monique Tschofen 125

7 Telling a Horror Story, Conscientiously: Representing the Armenian Genocide from Open House to Ararat / Lisa Siraganian 133

8 History and Memory, Repetition and Epistolarity / Marie-Aude Baronian 157

9 The Double's Choice: The Immigrant Experience in Atom Egoyan's Next of Kin / Batia Boe Stolar 177

10 Atom Egoyan's Post-exilic Imaginary: Representing Homeland, Imagining Family / Nellie Hogikyan 193

Section 3 Pathologies/Ontologies of the Visual

11 Modes of Perception: Visuality, Culpability, and Innocence / Jennifer Burwell, Monique Tschofen 221

12 Speaking Parts: The Geometry of Desire / William Beard 229

13 Look but Don't Touch: Visual and Tactile Desire in Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, and Felicia's Journey / Patricia Gruben 249

14 To Blame Her Sadness: Representing Incest in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter / Melanie Boyd 275

15 Close: Voyeurism and the Idea of the Baroque / William F. Van Wert 295

16 Seeing and Hearing Atom Egoyan's Salome / Kay Armatage, Caryl Clark 307

Section 4 Conversations

17 An Imaginary Armenian Canadian Homeland: Gariné Torossian's Dialogue with Egoyan / Adam Gilders, Hrag Vartanian 331

18 Ripple Effects: Atom Egoyan Speaks with / Monique Tschofen 343

Filmography

Atom Egoyan's Oeuvre: Theatre, Film, Opera, Installation / Monique Tschofen, Angela Joosse 359

Bibliography

Comprehensive Bibliography on Atom Egoyan / Angela Joosse 377.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and indexes.

ISBN:

9780889204874

088920487X

OCLC:

145808284