Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin

Beard, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442610662 ISBN 13: 9781442610668

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2010

Into the Past Into the Past provides a complete and systematic critical commentary on each of Maddin's feature films and shorts, from his 1986 debut film The Dead Father through to his highly successful 2008 full-length 'docu-fantasia' My Winnipeg.

Review:

'To use a culinary metaphor, Into the Past is a grand entr?e on which the chef has expanded a deal of thought and time. In terms of Maddin's work, Beard is the master chef and Into the Past his pi?ce de r?sistance.' - George Melnyk - Great Plains Quarterly, Spring 2011

Into the Past is an impressive in-depth look at all of the major works in the Maddin inventory and more than a glance at almost everything else Maddin has ever produced. This immaculate achievement comprises a close set of readings and analysis that could only have been driven by a scholar happily lost in the funhouse of the material. - Noreen Golfman, Literary Review of Canada

About the Author:

William Beard is a professor and film studies program director in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.