Playing with Memories
Essays on Guy Maddin
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2009
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887553547
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
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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.