Atom Egoyan - Brossura

Romney, Jonathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0851708773 ISBN 13: 9780851708775

Casa editrice: British Film Inst, 2003

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jonathan Romney is Film Critic of the Independent on Sunday and regular contributor to Sight and Sound and Film Comment. He is the author of Short Orders, a book of collected criticism, and co-editor of Celluloid Jukebox (BFI), a survey of popular music and the movies.

Product Description:

Book by Romney Jonathan

Su questa edizione

• Editore: British Film Inst
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0851708773
• ISBN 13: 9780851708775
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 212