| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Canadian cinema ; 11 |
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Canadian cinema (Toronto, Ont.) ; 11
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and filmography |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Paizs, John -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Paizs, John fast |
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Crime wave (Motion picture : 1985) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019158071
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| Subject |
Cult films -- Canada
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Motion pictures, Canadian.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
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Cult films
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Motion pictures, Canadian
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442669994 |
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1442669993 |
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