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Author Ball, Jonathan, 1979- author.

Title John Paizs's Crime wave / Jonathan Ball.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Canadian cinema ; 11
Canadian cinema ; 11.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Paizs, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
Paizs, John.
Criticism and interpretation.
Crime wave (Motion picture)
Paizs, John.
Cult films -- Canada.
Cult films.
Canada.
Motion pictures, Canadian.
Motion pictures, Canadian.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Title Crime wave
Other Form: Print version: Ball, Jonathan, 1979-, author. John Paizs's Crime wave 9781442648128 (OCoLC)865495487
ISBN 9781442669994 (electronic book)
1442669993 (electronic book)
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