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Playing with Memories

Essays on Guy Maddin

edited by David Church

Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2009
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887553547
    Publish Date
    Sep 2009
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887557125
    Publish Date
    Sep 2009
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

Playing with Memories is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. It offers extensive perspectives on his career to date, from the early experimentation of The Dead Father (1986) to the intensely intimate revelations of My Winnipeg (2007). Featuring new and updated essays from American, Canadian, and Australian scholars, collaborators, and critics, as well as an in-depth interview with Maddin, this collection explores the aesthetics and politics behind Maddin’s work, firmly situating his films within ongoing cultural debates about postmodernism, genre, and national identity.

About the author

David Church is a PhD student at Indiana University. He has contributed to Film Quarterly, Offscreen, Senses of Cinema, The Encyclopedia of American Disability History, and several other publications.

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