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JOHN PAIZS'S CRIME WAVE
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| By: |
Jonathan Ball |
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Hardback |
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£44.00 |
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£39.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1442648120 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781442648128 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 February, 2014 |
| Series: |
Canadian Cinema |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
In John Paizs's 'Crime Wave,' writer and filmmaker Jonathan Ball offers the first book-length study of this curious Canadian film. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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15 |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press |
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