Guy Maddins My Winnipeg

Download Guy Maddins My Winnipeg full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Guy Maddins My Winnipeg ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

My Winnipeg

Author : Guy Maddin
Publisher : Coach House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis My Winnipeg by : Guy Maddin

Download or read book My Winnipeg written by Guy Maddin and published by Coach House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This version includes a DVD of Maddin's My Winnipeg. A herd of horses frozen in a river. A bargain bridge. Séances. Golden Boy pageants. A demolished hockey arena. St. Mary's Academy for Girls. Spanky the Guide Dog through Time. An epidemic of sleepwalking. This is the Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cinéaste planant, and it's not the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures. When the iconoclastic auteur of The Saddest Music in the World decided to tackle the subject of his hometown, it could only have become a 'docu-fantasia,' a melange of personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing. The result is wildly delirious, deeply personal and deliciously entertaining. Herewith, venture deeper into the mind of Maddin with the text of his narration, wantonly annotated with an avalanche of marginal digressions, stills, outtakes, family photos, emails, essays, deoculations, animations, notebook pages and collages. There's even an X-ray of Spanky the pug and an in-depth interview with Michael Ondaatje. 'If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin ... he rewrites history; when that fails, he creates it.' - Roger Ebert '[Maddin is] the most reluctantly radical and humorously tortured maverick working in the movies today.' - John Waters

Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

Author : Darren Sean Wershler-Henry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442642467
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg by : Darren Sean Wershler-Henry

Download or read book Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg written by Darren Sean Wershler-Henry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first decade of the twenty-first century, has consolidated Maddin's international reputation. In this sixth volume of the Canadian Cinema series, Darren Wershler argues that Maddin's use of techniques and media that fall outside of the normal repertoire of contemporary cinema require us to re-examine what we think we know about the documentary genre and even 'film' itself. Through an exploration of My Winnipeg's major thematic concerns - memory, the cultural archive, and how people and objects circulate through the space of the city - Wershler contends that the result is a film that is psychologically and affectively true without being historically accurate.

Into the Past

Author : William Beard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442610662
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Into the Past by : William Beard

Download or read book Into the Past written by William Beard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and silent-film storytelling, premieres at major film festivals around the world and is avidly discussed in the critical press. Into the Past provides a complete and systematic critical commentary on each of Maddin's feature films and shorts, from his 1986 debut film The Dead Father through to his highly successful 2008 full-length 'docu-fantasia' My Winnipeg. William Beard's extensive analysis of Maddin's narrative and aesthetic strategies, themes, influences, and underlying issues also examines the origins and production history of each film. Each of Maddin's projects and collaborations showcase his gradual evolution as a filmmaker and his singular development of narrative forms. Beard's close readings of these films illuminate, among other things, the profound ways in which Maddin's art is founded in the past - both in the cultural past, and in his personal memory.

From the Atelier Tovar

Author : Guy Maddin
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 177056067X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis From the Atelier Tovar by : Guy Maddin

Download or read book From the Atelier Tovar written by Guy Maddin and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 1999-09-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most celebrated and original filmmakers, the director of such delirious films as Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg. Few know, however, that he is just as gifted a writer, and his resolutely purple prose, as eccentric and enchanting as his film work, is a true delight. From the Atelier Tovar gathers, in one volume, the best of Maddin's writing: his journalism (originally published in the Village Voice, Cinema Scope, Film Comment and points beyond), unpublished short stories and film treatments (including the riotous Child Without Qualities), and selections, both lurid and illuminating, from the filmmaker's personal journals. Here are Maddin's feverish musings on hockey, the Osmonds, divas of the Italian silent cinema, Bollywood, his own twisted biography, and much, much more. What emerges finally is both a fragrant potpourri and a treasure trove, a singular portrait of this very unique artist.

Playing with Memories

Author : David Church
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553540
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Playing with Memories by : David Church

Download or read book Playing with Memories written by David Church and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Film and the City

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1927356598
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Film and the City by : George Melnyk

Download or read book Film and the City written by George Melnyk and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.

A Companion to Federico Fellini

Author : Frank Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119431530
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Companion to Federico Fellini by : Frank Burke

Download or read book A Companion to Federico Fellini written by Frank Burke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director’s films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini’s works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellini’s birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini’s films and illustrates Fellini’s importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini’s early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of “Short Takes” sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume: Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini’s work Discusses Fellini’s creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death. Examines Fellini’s influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa. Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini’s work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture. Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini’s work The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies.

Guy Maddin

Author : Guy Maddin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604735635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Guy Maddin by : Guy Maddin

Download or read book Guy Maddin written by Guy Maddin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian director of such films as The Dead Father and Careful

Curationism

Author : David Balzer
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1552452999
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Curationism by : David Balzer

Download or read book Curationism written by David Balzer and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that we ‘curate’ even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture?

Cowards Bend the Knee

Author : Guy Maddin
Publisher : Power Plant Contemporary
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cowards Bend the Knee by : Guy Maddin

Download or read book Cowards Bend the Knee written by Guy Maddin and published by Power Plant Contemporary. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baggage

Author : Alan Cumming
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062435809
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Baggage by : Alan Cumming

Download or read book Baggage written by Alan Cumming and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate—and most importantly—a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability." —Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father’s Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity. But… No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something – an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person – you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending. Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I’ve become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage.

Documenting Cityscapes

Author : Iván Villarmea Álvarez
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850786
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Documenting Cityscapes by : Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Download or read book Documenting Cityscapes written by Iván Villarmea Álvarez and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s, paying particular attention to three aesthetic tendencies: documentary landscaping, urban self-portraits, and metafilmic strategies. Through the formal analysis of fifteen works from six different countries, this volume investigates how the rise of subjectivity has helped to develop a kind of gaze that is closer to citizens than to the institutions and corporations responsible for recent major transformations. Documenting Cityscapes therefore reveals the extent to which cinema has become an agent of urban change, in which certain films not only challenge the most controversial policies of late capitalism but also are able to produce spatiality themselves.

Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

Author : Darren Sean Wershler-Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442694057
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg by : Darren Sean Wershler-Henry

Download or read book Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg written by Darren Sean Wershler-Henry and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first decade of the twenty-first century, has consolidated Maddin's international reputation. In this sixth volume of the Canadian Cinema series, Darren Wershler argues that Maddin's use of techniques and media that fall outside of the normal repertoire of contemporary cinema require us to re-examine what we think we know about the documentary genre and even 'film' itself. Through an exploration of My Winnipeg's major thematic concerns - memory, the cultural archive, and how people and objects circulate through the space of the city - Wershler contends that the result is a film that is psychologically and affectively true without being historically accurate.

The Best Film You've Never Seen

Author : Robert K. Elder
Publisher : Zephyr Press
ISBN 13 : 1569768382
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Best Film You've Never Seen by : Robert K. Elder

Download or read book The Best Film You've Never Seen written by Robert K. Elder and published by Zephyr Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five directors reveal which overlooked or critically savaged films they believe deserve a larger audience while offering advice on how to watch each film.

Music Lessons

Author : Bob Wiseman
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773054945
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Music Lessons by : Bob Wiseman

Download or read book Music Lessons written by Bob Wiseman and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal, or, as his friend Joe once said, everything is everything. Bearing in mind this fortune cookie advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily tasks, like teaching a five-year-old “Twinkle, Twinkle” and doing the dishes each night. Bob writes daily, the way someone else might practice scales; although his sense of the instrument and the musician has changed over the years, Bob adheres to doing exercises that have wider connections than whether the strings are in tune. Each entry is unique and compellingly written, but the themes throughout — on improvisational music, life lessons, and conflict — are ubiquitous.

David Lynch

Author : Dennis Lim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544343751
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis David Lynch by : Dennis Lim

Download or read book David Lynch written by Dennis Lim and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the life and work of David Lynch, one of the most enigmatic and influential filmmakers of our time Every frame of David Lynch's work, from the '70s midnight movie Eraserhead to the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, to the digital-video DIY feat Inland Empire, bears his unmistakable imprint. But the paradox of the Lynchian is that it's easy to recognize and hard to define. Lynch is a master of the inscrutable gesture, the opaque symbol. His career evades the usual categories: pop culture icon and subject of academic study, cult figure and industry outsider. He's a Renaissance man—musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur—and a vocal proponent or transcendental meditation. Dennis Lim, the newly minted director of Cinematheque programming at Lincoln Center, is a skilled cinephile wary of over-interpretation.David Lynch preserves the strangeness of the Lynch's universe and offers a personal meditation on the most distinctive filmmaker in modern American culture. It leaves what Lynch likes to call "room to dream," honoring the allure of the unknown and the unknowable.

Postcolonial Film

Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134747349
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Postcolonial Film by : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Download or read book Postcolonial Film written by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century’s end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation’s unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation’s struggle with its coloniality allows each essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial.