{"product_id":"9780851708775","title":"Atom Egoyan","description":"Films such as \"The Adjuster\", \"Calendar\" and \"Speaking Parts\" established Canadian Armenian director Atom Egoyan as a leading contender for being the worlds most alluring post-modern filmmaker. In these and other films the distortions and perversions of the self are mirrored through an omnipresent (and sexualised) visual media culture. Through the filter of a compassionate detachment his work is an unparalleled probing of identity and alienation, sexuality and dysfunction, psychology and subjectivity. Critic Jonathan Romney traces Egoyan's career, film by film - from his early shorts, through the video-themed features that made his name, to his emergence as prize-winning A list auteur with \"The Sweet Hereafter\" and the wider canvasses of his most recent films \"Felicia's Journey\" and \"Ararat\". The author shows how films such as Egoyan's \"Exotica\" (set in a strip club and structured like a striptease) offer their viewers rich, almost inexhaustibly complex pleasures and demonstrate the craft of one of contemporary cinema's most provocative auteurs.","brand":"BFI Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022135345392,"sku":"9780851708775","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780851708775_p0.jpg?v=1763836149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780851708775","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}