Into the past: The cinema of Guy Maddin

Sobre el libro Into the past: The cinema of Guy Maddin de William Beard publicado por U Totonto P en 2010:

Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and silent-film storytelling, premieres at major film festivals around the world and is avidly discussed in the critical press. 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.William Beard´s extensive analysis of Maddin´s narrative and aesthetic strategies, themes, influences, and underlying issues also examines the origins and production history of each film. Each of Maddin´s projects and collaborations showcase his gradual evolution as a filmmaker and his singular development of narrative forms. Beard´s close readings of these films illuminate, among other things, the profound ways in which Maddin´s art is founded in the past - both in the cultural past, and in his personal memory.