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Atom Egoyan

Emma Wilson

(Contemporary film directors / edited by James Naremore)

University of Illinois Press, c2009

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Bibliography: p. [153]-158

"Selected filmography": p. [147]-151

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Description

The films of Atom Egoyan immerse the viewer in a world of lush sensuality, melancholia, and brooding obsession. From his earliest films Next of Kin and Family Viewing, to his coruscating Exotica and recent projects such as Where the Truth Lies, Egoyan has paid infinite attention to narrative intricacy and psychological complexity. Traumatic loss and its management through ritual return as themes in his films as he explores personal scenarios of mourning and broader issues of genocide, exile, and postmemory, in particular in relation to his own Armenian heritage. In this study, Emma Wilson closely analyzes the range of Egoyan's films and their visual textures, emotional control, and perverse beauty. Offering a full-scale chronological overview of Egoyan's work on films up to and including Where the Truth Lies, Wilson shows the persistence and development of certain structures and themes in Egoyan's cinema: questions of exile and nostalgia, trauma and healing, the family and sexuality. While drawing on ideas about intercultural cinema, Wilson also sets Egoyan's films in the context of contemporary Canadian cinema and European art-house cinema. Egoyan's own comments on his films thread throughout Wilson's analyses, and the book features a recent interview with the director.

Table of Contents

Preface | ix Acknowledgments | xiii ON FOREIGENNESS AND FAMILIES | 1 Next of Kin (1984) 12 Family Viewing (1987) 22 Speaking Parts (1989) 34 The Adjuster (1991) 47 Calendar (1993) 61 Exotica (1994) 73 The Sweet Hereafter (1996) 88 Felicia's Journey (1999) 102 Ararat (2002) 115 Where the Truth Lies (2005) 128 INTERVIEW WITH ATOM AGOYAN | 137 Filmography | 147 Bibliography | 153 Index | 159

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