John Paizs's Crime Wave

by Jonathan Ball

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442616172
• ISBN13: 9781442616172
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.7"