John Paizs's Crime Wave / / Jonathan Ball.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2014
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Canadian Cinema
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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