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Ball, Jonathan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut John Paizs's Crime Wave / Jonathan Ball. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2014 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Canadian Cinema Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Top! Few Films Made It! -- 2. Beginnings and Endings -- 3. The Greatest Color Crime Movie Never Made -- 4. The Stuff In-Between -- 5. Twists! -- 6. The Gap Exposing the Real -- 7. An Alternate Universe -- 8. From the North -- Production Credits -- Further Viewing -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020) Cult films Canada. Motion pictures, Canadian. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 9783110606812 print 9781442648128 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442669994 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442669994 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442669994.jpg |
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