- Paperback: 426 pages
- Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press; First edition (Oct 29 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 088920487X
- ISBN-13: 978-0889204874
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 640 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #462,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless consistently appealed to wide audiences around the world. If films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have ensured him international cult status as one of the most revered of all contemporary directors, Egoyan’s forays into installation art and opera have provided evidence of his versatility and confirmed his talents.
Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan is both scholarly and accessible. Indispensable for the scholar, student, and fan, this collection of new essays and interviews from leading film and media scholars unpacks the central arguments, tensions, and paradoxes of his work and traces their evolution. It also locates his work within larger intellectual and artistic currents in order to consider how he takes up and answers critical debates in politics, philosophy, and aesthetics. Most importantly, it addresses how his work is both intellectually engaging and emotionally moving.
About the Author
Monique Tschofen is an associate professor in the English department at Ryerson University, Toronto. She is editor of Kristjana Gunnars: Essays on Her Work, and the author of articles and book chapters on Atom Egoyan, Robert Lepage, Anne Carson, and other Canadian artists. She is currently working on a monograph about early Canadian torture narratives.
Jennifer Burwell is an associate professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University and author of Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation. Burwell’s current research explores the relationships among discursive logics, communications technologies, and the historical development of a market economy.
Jennifer Burwell is an associate professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University and author of Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation. Burwell’s current research explores the relationships among discursive logics, communications technologies, and the historical development of a market economy.
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Atom Egoyan has made significant contributions to filmmaking, installation art and opera that contradict the widespread notion that formal experimentation and theoretical argument must, of necessity, be antithetical to the pleasures of creation and/or enjoyment of observational or experiential art. Expertly compiled and collaboratively edited by Ryerson University Department of English associate professors Monique Teschofen and Jennifer Burwell, "Image + Territory: Essays On Atom Egoyan" offers eighteen diversely informed and informative essays grouped around the themes of `Media Technologies, Aura, and Redemption'; `Diasporic Histories and the Exile of Meaning'; `Pathologies/Ontologies of the Visual'; and `Conversations'. Enhanced with the inclusion of an exhaustive Filmography, an extended Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, and an Index, "Image + Territory: Essays On Atom Egoyan" is offers impressive body of commentary pertaining to the study of theatre, film and opera which would prove to be a core contribution to university library collections and supplemental reading lists for academic studies.
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