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You are cordially invited to the book launch for three new books by Yorks Film Department Faculty Members:
24
by John McCullough
Wayne State University Press, 2014
Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology
by Temenuga Trifonova
Amsterdam University Press, 2014
Rewrite, a novel by Temenuga Trifonova
NON Publishing, 2014
Northwood Caf
815 Bloor street West
October 8, 2014
7:30pm
Refreshments will be served!
Come enjoy Northwood’s exceptional cocktails and mingle with friends and colleagues!
John McCullough is associate professor and chair of the Department of Film at York University in Toronto. He is co-editor of Locating Migrating Media and John Porters Film Activity Book.
Temenuga Trifonova is associate professor in the Department of Film at York University in Toronto. She is the author of The Image in French Philosophy, editor/contributor of European Film Theory, and director/writer of the feature film Man of Glass 2012.
BOOK REVIEWS
24
John McCullough offers a tour de force analysis of the narrative structure, style, and thematic obsessions of the most famous of the post-9/11 terrorism-themed adventure series, 24. His careful attention to poetics and form supports a larger argument about the role of excess, artifice, and fantasy in the imagining of contemporary political conflicts. If history hurts, as Frederic Jameson once argued, then 24 tickles, and McCullough explains precisely how and why that is. Required reading for anyone interested in the poetics and politics of postmodern pastiche.
— Stacy Takacs, associate professor and director of American studies at Oklahoma State University
REWRITE
This novel of impostors, like Kafka or Camus, negotiates noir notions of identity and delusion, amnesia and disguise. It seems both fin-de sicle and up to the minute, an existential maze of despair and beatitude, Robbe-Grillet and The Singing Detective wrestling in hazmat suits.
— Mark Anthony Jarman, author of My White Planet and 19 Knives
Equal parts philosophical debate and academic farce, Rewrite bends rules of fiction, laughs at contemporary culture, and questions both art and existence. The ontological and epistemological uncertainty of modern life attempts to narrativize itself via Aristotelian rules of art, at turns hilariously and lyrically writing and rewriting what can be known.
— Amy Sage Webb, author of Save Your Own Life
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