Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg
By: Darren Wershler
Series: Canadian cinema -- 6; Canadian cinema -- 6.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo, [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781442642461; 9781442611344
Subjects: My Winnipeg (Motion picture); Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: My Winnipeg
Description: "Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first decade of the twenty-first century, has consolidated Maddin's international reputation.

In this sixth volume of the Canadian Cinema series, Darren Wershler argues that Maddin's use of techniques and media that fall outside of the normal repertoire of contemporary cinema require us to re-examine what we think we know about the documentary genre and even 'film' itself. Through an exploration of My Winnipeg's major thematic concerns - memory, the cultural archive, and how people and objects circulate through the space of the city - Wershler contends that the result is a film that is psychologically and affectively true without being historically accurate."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Breaking and entering : an introduction; title: Transfusions : biography and filmography; title: The peculiar enchantments of Winnipeg : the commission; title: A glorious dress-up chest : genre; title: More ellipses : the city and circulation; title: The forks beneath the forks : desire and drive; title: Goat-glanding and other delights : narration and sound; title: Viscous and cottony hallucinations : memory and haunted media; title: Beautifully broken : conclusions.