Playing with memories : essays on Guy Maddin / edited by David Church.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Church, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maddin, Guy, 1956---Criticism and interpretation.

Maddin, Guy.

Maddin, Guy, 1956---Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors--Canada.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Playing with Memories is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. It offers extensive perspectives on his career to date, from the early experimentation of The Dead Father (1986) to the intensely intimate revelations of My Winnipeg (2007). Featuring new and updated essays from American, Canadian, and Australian scholars, collaborators, and critics, as well as an in-depth interview with Maddin, this collection explores the aesthetics and politics behind Maddin's work, firmly situating his films within ongoing cultural debates about postmodernism, genre, and national identity.

Contents:

Bark fish appreciation: an introduction / David Church

My brother's keeper: fraternal relations in the films of Guy Maddin and George Toles / Donald Masterson

Guy Maddin: true to form / Geoff Pevere

Reinhabiting lost languages: Guy Maddin's Careful / Will Straw

Fire and ice: the films of Guy Maddin / Steven Shaviro

Maddin and melodrama / William Beard

Thoroughly modern Maddin / David L. Pike

Sexuality and self in the Guy Maddin vision / Stephen Snyder

The heart of his world: emotional immediacy and distance in the films of Guy Maddin / Carl Matheson

From Archangel to Mandragora in your own backyard: collaborating with Guy Maddin / George Toles

Guy Maddin's Dracula: virgins, vampires, and the "Theatre film" / Milan Pribisic

Demented enchantments: Maddin's dis-eased heart / Dana Cooley

Desire in bondage: Guy Maddin's Careful / Darrel Varga

Hit with a wrecking ball, tickled with a feather: gesture, deixis, and the Baroque cinema of Guy Maddin / Saige Walton

"I am not American; I am a nymphomaniac": perverting the nation in Guy Maddin's The saddest music in the world / Lee Easton and Kelly Hewson

Conversations with Guy Maddin / Interview by William Beard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).

ISBN:

9786613091024

9781283091022

128309102X

9780887553547

0887553540

OCLC:

759156989