George Toles is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film .
George Toles is film studies' most astute close reader and its
finest prose stylist. This book captures the ineffable strangeness
of P. T. Anderson's films--their unusual forms, unsettled
soundscapes, and characters wanting unmet connections. Toles
explores the subjective interiors and cultural terrain these
blinkered selves--and we viewers--cannot fully see. It's been said
that actors are our substitutes, avatars who test unplumbed psychic
depths. So it is with Toles, our guide to these miraculous
films.--Carol Vernallis, author of Unruly Media: Youtube, Music
Video, and the New Digital Cinema
Scriptwriter for films by Guy Maddin, George Toles is also one of
the most insightful and articulate critics writing today. Tackling
the enigmatic Paul Thomas Anderson, Toles probes these dramas of
isolation, revealing both desperate violence and the possibility of
communion.--Tom Gunning, author of The Films of Fritz Lang:
Allegories of Vision and Modernity
Here, caught within its covers, is the inimitable George Toles's
richly challenging and brilliantly lambent voyage into the world of
P. T. Anderson. Always turning and returning, always leaping and
quivering with thought, the book opens Anderson to a new sense of
value and depth that reveals his poetry, his multiplicities, and
his touch upon our lives.--Murray Pomerance, author of Moment of
Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance
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