Table of Contents
- Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan, edited by Monique
Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: In Media Res: Atom Egoyan's Utopian Praxis
Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell
- Section 1: Technology, Aura, and Redemption
- Artifice and Artifact: Technology and the Performance of
Identity Jennifer Burwell and Monique Tschofen
- Fetish and Aura: Modes of Technological Engagement in Family
Viewing Elena del Río
- The Adjuster: Playing House William Beard
- The Thirteenth Church: Musical Structures in Atom Egoyan's
Calendar Katrin Kegel
- The Passing of Celluloid, the Endurance of the Image: Egoyan,
Steenbeckett, and Krapp's Last Tape David L. Pike
- Section 2: Diasporic Histories and the Exile of Meaning
- Mobile Subjectivity and Micro-territories: Placing the Diaspora
Jennifer Burwell and Monique Tschofen
- Telling a Horror Story, Conscientiously: Representing the
Armenian Genocide from Open House to Ararat Lisa Siraganian
- History and Memory, Repetition and Epistolarity Marie-Aude
Baronian
- The Double's Choice: The Immigrant Experience in Atom Egoyan's
Next of Kin Batia Boe Stolar
- Atom Egoyan's Post-exilic Imaginary: Representing Homeland,
Imagining Family Nellie Hogikyan
- Section 3: Pathologies/Ontologies of the Visual
- Culpability, Innocence, Visual and Narrative Mastery Jennifer
Burwell and Monique Tschofen
- Speaking Parts: The Geometry of Desire William Beard
- Look but Don't Touch: Visual and Tactile Desire in Exotica, The
Sweet Hereafter, and Felicia's Journey Patricia Gruben
- To Blame Her Sadness: Representing Incest in Atom Egoyan's The
Sweet Hereafter Melanie Boyd
- Close: Voyeurism and the Idea of the Baroque William F. Van
Wert
- Seeing and Hearing Atom Egoyan's Salome Kay Armatage and Caryl
Clark
- Section 4: Conversations
- An Imaginary Armenian Canadian Homeland: Gariné Torossian's
Dialogue with Egoyan Adam Gilders and Hrag Vartanian
- Ripple Effects: Atom Egoyan Speaks with Monique Tschofen
- Bibliography: Comprehensive Bibliography on Atom Egoyan Angela
Joosse
- Notes on Contributors
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
- Contributors' Bios
- Kay Armatage is an associate professor at the University of
Toronto, crossappointed to Cinema Studies, Innis College, and the
Institute of Women's Studies. She is also a member of the Graduate
Centre for the Study of Drama. She is author of The Girl from God's
Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema (University of Toronto
Press, 2003), co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's
Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 1999), editor of Equity and
How to Get It (Toronto: Inanna Press, 1999), and author of articles
on women filmmakers, feminist theory, and Canadian cinema in books,
film magazines, and refereed journals.
- Marie-Aude Baronian is an assistant professor in the Department
of Philosophy and Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam and
a member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). She
has written and lectured extensively on Atom Egoyan's cinema and on
issues of representation, testimony, and memory, and is co-editor
(together with Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen) of the volume
Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary
Literature, Arts and Politics (Rodopi, 2005). She has completed an
interdisciplinary dissertation entitled Image et témoignage: vers
un esthétique de la catastrophe.
- William Beard is a professor of film/media studies at the
University of Alberta, where he was for many years coordinator of
the Film/Media Studies program. He is the author of Persistence of
Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood (University of Alberta
Press, 2000) and The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David
Cronenberg (University of Toronto Press, 2001), and co-editor of
North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema since 1980 (University
of Alberta Press, 2002). He is currently working on a book about
Guy Maddin.
- Melanie Boyd received her PhD in English and Women's Studies
from the University of Michigan and is now a postdoctoral fellow at
Lawrence University, where she is affiliated with the Gender
Studies Program. Her research focuses on contemporary U.S. and
Canadian narratives of sexual violence, looking particularly at the
rhetorics of innocence, damage, and healing that operate within
these political texts; she is especially interested in their
construction of narrative authority. Her current book project,
Refiguring Incest: Feminism, Narrative, and the Abandonment of
Innocence, looks at three decades of feminist accounts of paternal
incest to highlight their shifting formulations of victimhood and
to trace the implications of those shifts for feminist
theorizations of subjectivity, agency, and violence.
- Jennifer Burwell is an associate professor in the English
Department at Ryerson University. She teaches media studies to
Radio Television Arts students at Ryerson and to graduate students
in the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and
Cultural Studies. Her book, Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian
Logic, and Social Transformation (University of Minnesota Press,
1997) examines utopian thought in relation to contemporary
postmodern, critical Marxist, and feminist theory. Her current
interests include the political economy of communications
technology and the relationship between surveillance society and
the public sphere.
- Caryl Clark teaches musicology in the Faculty of Music,
University of Toronto and in the Department of Visual and
Performing Arts at UTSC (University of Toronto Scarborough Campus).
Her publications reflect interests in the socio-cultural contexts
of music-making, gender issues, performance studies, and the
politics of musical reception. She is co-editor of two special
interdisciplinary opera issues of the University of Toronto
Quarterly""Voices of Opera"" (1998) and ""Interdisciplinary Studies
of Opera"" (2003), and is co-chair of the Humanities Initiative at
the Munk Centre for International Studies. She is currently editing
the Cambridge Companion to Haydn.
- Elena del Río is an assistant professor of Film Studies at the
University of Alberta. Her essays on the intersections of cinema
and technology and of cinema and performance have appeared in
Camera Obscura, Discourse, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video,
Science Fiction Studies, and Studies in French Cinema.
- Adam Gilders is a Toronto writer and academic. His fiction and
articles have appeared in the Paris Review, The Walrus, and J&L
Illustrated. He is the author, with photographer Jason Fulford, of
Sunbird.
- Patricia Gruben is an associate professor of Film and director
of the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters at Simon Fraser University
in Vancouver. She is also a filmmaker who has written and directed
two dramatic features (Low Visibility and Deep Sleep), a
feature-length documentary (Ley Lines) and several experimental
narrative shorts including Sifted Evidence and Before It Blows.
Recent publications include analyses of narrative structure in The
Sweet Hereafter (Creative Screenwriting, March 2001) and Renny
Bartlett's Eisenstein (ScreenTalk, January 2002).
- Nellie Hogikyan is a sessional lecturer in Comparative
Literature and psycholinguistics at l'Université de Montréal. She
is in charge of the Postcolonial Studies Reading Group, which she
co-founded in 2000 in the department of Comparative Literature at
l'Université de Montréal, where she works on questions of
subalternity in the context of Lebanese-Palestinian terrorism. She
has published fiction and non-fiction in local newspapers and
magazines. Her academic essays include ""Silence et résistance: le
langage du subalterne. Le cas des réfugié-e-s palestinien-ne-s au
Liban"" (in Approches de l'outre-langue, ed. Alexis Nouss, Presses
Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2005), ""De la mythation à la
mutation: structures ouvertes de l'identité"" (in Poésie, terre
d'exil; Alexis Nouss Trait d'union, 2003), and ""The Crisis in
Reason: Feminism, Simone de Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade""
(Revue de l'Institut Simone de Beauvoir Institute Review 18/19,
2000).
- Angela Joosse is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate
Programme in Communication and Culture of Ryerson and York
universities. She is the author of, ""Dziga Vertov and Steve Mann:
The Embodiment of the Master Metaphor of Vision,"" (Intersections
Conference Journal, 2005). She is also a Toronto-based filmmaker.
Her most recent films are Shapes Eat Shapes (2006), City Window
(2005), Ear after Ear (2005), and Avra, which screened at the 2004
Montreal Festival des Films du Monde.
- Katrin Kegel graduated from the University of Music and
Performing Arts Mozarteum, Salzburg. After several years of theatre
work, she took up studies of media communication and film at the
University of Arts in Berlin and at Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University in Frankfurt. She was as a staff member with the
international film festivals of Toronto and Berlin and involved in
a broad range of film-production work, with a special interest on
international co-productions. She completed her masters in Film
Studies with a thesis on ethnicity in the early films of Atom
Egoyan (2002).
- David L. Pike is an associate professor of literature at
American University. He is author of Passage through Hell:
Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (1997), which won the
Gustave O. Arlt Award and was a Choice Academic Book of the Year,
and Subterranean Cities: Subways, Cemeteries, Sewers, and the
Culture of Paris and London (2005). He is co-editor of the Longman
Anthology of World Literature (2004) and has published widely on
nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban literature, culture, and
film. He is currently working on a history of Canadian cinema since
1980, to be published by Wallflower Press.
- Lisa Siraganian is an assistant professor of English at
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She is currently
working on a book about theories of the art object in
twentieth-century American literature. She has previous published
articles in Diaspora and Modernism/Modernity.
- Batia Boe Stolar is an assistant professor in English at
Lakehead University. She has recent or forthcoming publications in
the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Studies in Canadian
Literature, and Downtown Canada. She is currently completing a
manuscript on cultural constructions of the immigrant in Canadian
and American literature and film, and researching visual
representations of the immigrant in Canadian and American
documentaries, photography, and film.
- Gariné Torossian is a self-taught filmmaker and photographer.
Mining a rich palette of colours and textures, superimpositions and
dissolves, mixing formats of Super 8, 35mm, and video, Torossian
creates films that bridge the gaps between visual, sound art,
cinema, and music video. Sixteen of her films have shown
internationally at festivals and universities. Retrospectives of
her work have been held at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Stan
Brakhage's First Person Cinema, Yerevan's Cinematheque, the Berlin
Arsenal, and the Telluride Festival. She has been awarded prizes
and mentions at the Berlin, Melbourne, and Houston film
festivals.
- Monique Tschofen is an associate professor in the Department of
English at Ryerson University and a member of the Joint Graduate
Programme in Communications and Culture of Ryerson and York
universities. She is the editor of Kristjana Gunnars: Essays on Her
Work (Guernica 2004) and has published articles on Canadian film,
literature, and painting, intermediality and visuality, and
violence in representation. She is currently working on a monograph
on new-world torture narratives.
- William Van Wert was the Laura Carnell Professor of English at
Temple University, where he taught film and creative writing and
was serving as the director of undergraduate English studies at the
time of his death. He was the author of fifteen books, among them
novels (What's It All About, Stool Wives, Don Quixote), short story
collections (Tales for Expectant Fathers, Missing in Action, The
Advancement of Ignorance), poetry collections (The Invention of Ice
Skating, Proper Myth, Vital Signs), and one book of essays (Memory
Links), as well as extensive work in the area of film studies. His
death is a profound loss to all who worked with him and read his
work.
- Hrag Vartanian is an Armenian Canadian writer and critic living
in Brooklyn, New York. He is a staff writer for AGBU News Magazine,
the Brooklyn Rail newspaper, and Boldtype, an online review
journal. He also serves on the editorial board of the quarterly
Ararat. His writing explores diversity and identity in a global
context.
About the Author
Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell, Editors
Reviews
``Editors Tschofen and Burwell have divided their book into four
sections ... each preceded by a thoughtful introduction by the
co-editors, and concluding with the most complete Egoyan
filmography yet published in a non-bibliographical study. This is
an impressively thoughtful assemblage of texts.... Tschofen and
Burwell also deserve credit for relying almost exclusively on
Canadian critics for input.... Atom Egoyan is nor more generically
North American than Ingmar Bergman is generically European....
Image and Territory is both useful and impressive, and belongs on
the shelf of any cinephile interested in the work of the king of
Armenian Canadian directors.'' -- Mark Harris -- Canadian
Literature, 196, Spring 2008, 200808
``The editors' introductions to each section are particularly smart
and insightful, identifying Egoyan's chief preoccupations as an
artist in terms of trauma, absence, substitution, displacement,
denial, inversion, and negation.'' -- J. Belton, Rutgers -- CHOICE,
July 2007, 200705
``An excellent book; each of the essays is well thought out and
deals with complex issues in an exemplary academic matter.... I
would highly recommend the book to anyone interested in Egoyan's
films and in the many contradictions and paradoxes of postmodern
life that he evokes.'' -- Mary Alemany-Galway -- Topia, 19, June
2008, 200806