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John Paizs's Crime Wave / Jonathan Ball.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Canadian CinemaPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 15 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781442648128
  • 9781442669994
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.C75
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Top! Few Films Made It! -- 2. Beginnings and Endings -- 3. The Greatest Color Crime Movie Never Made -- 4. The Stuff In-Between -- 5. Twists! -- 6. The Gap Exposing the Real -- 7. An Alternate Universe -- 8. From the North -- Production Credits -- Further Viewing -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Top! Few Films Made It! -- 2. Beginnings and Endings -- 3. The Greatest Color Crime Movie Never Made -- 4. The Stuff In-Between -- 5. Twists! -- 6. The Gap Exposing the Real -- 7. An Alternate Universe -- 8. From the North -- Production Credits -- Further Viewing -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography

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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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