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John Paizs´s Crime Wave
Jonathan Ball
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Description for John Paizs´s Crime Wave
Hardback. In John Paizs's 'Crime Wave,' writer and filmmaker Jonathan Ball offers the first book-length study of this curious Canadian film. Series: Canadian Cinema. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Canadian Cinema
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442648128
SKU
V9781442648128
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About Jonathan Ball
Jonathan Ball teaches courses in literature, film, and writing at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg.
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