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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Canadian cinema ; 11
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Canadian cinema ; 11.
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Includes bibliographical references and filmography. |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Paizs, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Paizs, John. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Crime wave (Motion picture)
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Paizs, John. |
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Cult films -- Canada.
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Cult films. |
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Canada. |
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Motion pictures, Canadian.
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Motion pictures, Canadian. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Crime wave |
Other Form: |
Print version: Ball, Jonathan, 1979-, author. John Paizs's Crime wave 9781442648128 (OCoLC)865495487 |
ISBN |
9781442669994 (electronic book) |
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1442669993 (electronic book) |
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9781442648128 |
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1442648120 |
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9781442616172 |
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1442616172 |
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