Atom Egoyan S The Adjuster

Author : Tom McSorley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442697164

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Atom Egoyan's 'The Adjuster' by Tom McSorley Pdf

One of Canada's pre-eminent auteur filmmakers, Atom Egoyan has been celebrated internationally, earning multiple awards from the prestigious Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals and an Academy Award nomination. One of his most accomplished and controversial early works, The Adjuster, is a dark drama about the complex and intense relationship between an insurance adjuster and his clients. In this accessible analysis, Tom McSorley traces the genesis, production, and reception of Egoyan's fourth feature film, from its Cannes Film Festival premiere to its North American commercial release. The book locates The Adjuster in the larger context of Canadian cinema history's peculiar and often troubled evolution, and offers a provocative interpretation of the film's unique analysis of the malaise of materialism in North American culture. Richly illustrated and featuring new interview material with Egoyan himself, this study in the Canadian Cinema series offers an insightful review of one of Atom Egoyan's most searching, unsettling films.

Author : Peter Rist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313017254

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Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada by Peter Rist Pdf

This new volume in the Greenwood Press series Reference Guides to the World's Cinema discusses the films and personalities of the Canadian cinema. This guide encompasses the diverse output of both the English and French Canadian communities and includes 175 films and 125 filmmakers and actors. Alphabetically arranged entries discuss important films, actors, directors, shorts, and a number of experimental films. With few exceptions, films are included only if their production company was incorporated in Canada. Similarly, filmmakers and actors represent people who have worked primarily in Canada. This guide will interest scholars, students, and film buffs. Brief bibliographies after each entry provide sources for further reading. Three appendixes provide additional information regarding Canadian born filmmakers and actors excluded from the main text, winners of Canadian film awards, and a listing of the top ten Canadian films.

Author : Atom Egoyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : PSU:000067849505

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Atom Egoyan by Atom Egoyan Pdf

Collected interviews with the Canadian director of such acclaimed films as The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia's Journey, and Exotica

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252056512

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Atom Egoyan by Emma Wilson Pdf

The films of Atom Egoyan immerse the viewer in a world of lush sensuality, melancholia, and brooding obsession. From his earliest films Next of Kin and Family Viewing, to his coruscating Exotica and recent projects such as Where the Truth Lies, Egoyan has paid infinite attention to narrative intricacy and psychological complexity. Traumatic loss and its management through ritual return as themes in his films as he explores personal scenarios of mourning and broader issues of genocide, exile, and postmemory, in particular in relation to his own Armenian heritage. In this study, Emma Wilson closely analyzes the range of Egoyan's films and their visual textures, emotional control, and perverse beauty. Offering a full-scale chronological overview of Egoyan's work on films up to and including Where the Truth Lies, Wilson shows the persistence and development of certain structures and themes in Egoyan's cinema: questions of exile and nostalgia, trauma and healing, the family and sexuality. While drawing on ideas about intercultural cinema, Wilson also sets Egoyan's films in the context of contemporary Canadian cinema and European art-house cinema. Egoyan's own comments on his films thread throughout Wilson's analyses, and the book features a recent interview with the director.

Author : Jennifer Burwell,Monique Tschofen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780889204874

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Image and Territory by Jennifer Burwell,Monique Tschofen Pdf

In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless consistently appealed to wide audiences around the world. If films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have ensured him international cult status as one of the most revered of all contemporary directors, Egoyan's forays into installation art and opera have provided evidence of his versatility and confirmed his talents. Throughout his career, Atom Egoyan has shown himself to possess the rarest kind of singularity. As Jonathan Romney puts it, Egoyanþs 2preoccupations and tropes have been so consistent that he's practically created his own genre3 (1995, 8). Hrag Vartanian adds, 2Egoyanesque has become a word to film aficionados, commonly understood to mean a cinematic moment that examines sexuality, technology and alienation in the modern world3 (2004). For this singularity, Egoyan is widely hailed as a true auteur, ƯƯsomeone carrying on the legacy of the European art-house traditions of Bergman, Godard, and Truffaut. Certainly, his work bears a most recognizable signatureƯƯthere is no confusing an Egoyan work with anyone elseþs. Like his art-house predecessors, Egoyan clearly intends that his work be, as Dudley Andrew puts it, 2read rather than consumed,3 that is, viewed meditatively, reflected upon, and discussed (2000, 24). And indeed, in this world in which filmmaking has become commonplacewhere, as Egoyan has said, 2what used to be a rarified activity is now available to anyone with a digital camera and a computer3 (2001b, 18) he intends through much of his work to recall an earlier image culture in which artists had an ability to produce something that gained its power precisely through its rarity.

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252076206

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Atom Egoyan by Emma Wilson Pdf

The films of Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan immerse the viewer in a world of lush sensuality, melancholia, and brooding obsession. From his earliest films Next of Kin and Family Viewing, to his coruscating Exotica and recent projects such as Where the Truth Lies, Egoyan has paid infinite attention to narrative intricacy and psychological complexity. Traumatic loss and its management through ritual return as themes in his films, in particular in relation to his own Armenian heritage. In this study, Emma Wilson closely analyzes the range of Egoyan's films and their visual textures, emotional control, and perverse beauty. Egoyan's own comments on his films thread throughout Wilson's analyses, and the book features a recent interview with the director.

Author : David Roche,Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786479245

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Intimacy in Cinema by David Roche,Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot Pdf

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into question the boundaries between these extremes, and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser's theories of the relationship between the intimacy of cinema and the cinema of intimacy, the essays explore intimacy in silent and classic Hollywood movies, underground, documentary and animation films; and contemporary Hollywood, British, Canadian and Australian cinema from a variety of approaches.

Author : Francesco Casetti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231538879

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The Lumière Galaxy by Francesco Casetti Pdf

Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and museums, onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our habits and excite our imaginations. Casetti travels from the remote corners of film history and theory to the most surprising sites on the internet and in our cities to prove the ongoing relevance of cinema. He does away with traditional notions of canon, repetition, apparatus, and spectatorship in favor of new keywords, including expansion, relocation, assemblage, and performance. The result is an innovative understanding of cinema's place in our lives and culture, along with a critical sea-change in the study of the art. The more the nature of cinema transforms, the more it discovers its own identity, and Casetti helps readers realize the galaxy of possibilities embedded in the medium.

Author : Jonathan Romney
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0851708773

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Atom Egoyan by Jonathan Romney Pdf

Films such as "The Adjuster", "Calendar" and "Speaking Parts" established Canadian Armenian director Atom Egoyan as a leading contender for being the worlds most alluring post-modern filmmaker. In these and other films the distortions and perversions of the self are mirrored through an omnipresent (and sexualised) visual media culture. Through the filter of a compassionate detachment his work is an unparalleled probing of identity and alienation, sexuality and dysfunction, psychology and subjectivity. Critic Jonathan Romney traces Egoyan's career, film by film - from his early shorts, through the video-themed features that made his name, to his emergence as prize-winning A list auteur with "The Sweet Hereafter" and the wider canvasses of his most recent films "Felicia's Journey" and "Ararat". The author shows how films such as Egoyan's "Exotica" (set in a strip club and structured like a striptease) offer their viewers rich, almost inexhaustibly complex pleasures and demonstrate the craft of one of contemporary cinema's most provocative auteurs.

Author : Ken Dancyger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136048098

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Global Scriptwriting by Ken Dancyger Pdf

Global Scriptwriting offers a look at an exciting new phase in screen storytelling, as writers and directors from all over the world infuse traditional forms with their own cultural values to create stories that have an international appeal and suggest a universality among readers, viewers, and listeners. A unique blend of screenwriting technique and film studies, Global Scriptwriting discusses screen stories as they have evolved through the years, focusing first on the basics of scriptwriting, then going on to afford a more sophisticated look at script via different models of scriptwriting: the Hollywood model, the independent model, the national model, and various alternative models. It examines the internationalization of storytelling, and illustrates how particular innovations have helped national screen stories to international success. This book is the first to incorporate the basics of the classical form with the innovative edge of the last decade, as well the culture specific changes that have taken place outside of North America. It offers readers a view of the enriched repertoire available to writers resulting from the introduction of cultural perspectives into traditional story forms. Specific topics examined include, the ascent of voice, the search for new forms, the struggle between style and content, and the centrality of megagenre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Armenians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070771691

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AIM by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781449421502

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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012 by Roger Ebert Pdf

The only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, Roger Ebert collects his reviews from the last 30 months in Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012. Forbes Magazine described Ebert as the "most powerful pundit in America." In January 2011, he and his wife, Chaz, launched Ebert Presents at the Movies, a weekly public television program in the tradition that he and Gene Siskel began 35 years earlier. Since 1986, each edition of Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook has presented full-length movie reviews, with interviews, essays, tributes, journal entries, and "Questions for the Movie Answer Man," and new entries in his popular Movie Glossary. Inside Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012, readers can expect to find every movie review Ebert has written from January 2009 to July 2011, including The Social Network, Waiting for Superman, Inception, The King's Speech, My Dog Tulip, The Human Centipede, and more. Also included in the Yearbook are: * In-depth interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, such as John Waters and Justin Timberlake. * Memorial tributes to those in the film industry who have passed away, such as Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, and Arthur Penn. * Essays on the Oscars and reports from the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015054086320

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International Index to Film Periodicals by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Beard,Jerry White
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 088864390X

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North of Everything by William Beard,Jerry White Pdf

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the development of English-Canadian cinema since 1980; previous books in English have dealt either with specific films or filmmakers, with policy, or with specific genres (avant-garde film, documentary, films by women, etc.). It deals with regional and institutional questions, with the new authors that are defining contemporary cinema in English Canada, with avant-garde work and work by Aboriginal people. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, the book deals with an enormous amount of cinema that has helped transform North American culture of the last two decades.

Author : Chris Darke
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364078

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Light Readings by Chris Darke Pdf

Chris Darke assesses whether the last decade of the 20th century was one in which cinema, as a medium and collective experience, became part of the converging field of multi-media and whether we need to consider new possibilities for the moving image.