About the Book:

HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still available.

Films such as The Adjuster, Calendar and Speaking Parts established Canadian Armenian director Atom Egoyan as leading contender for being the world's most alluringly postmodern 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.

Leading critic Jonathan Romney traces Atom 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 canvases of his most recent films Felicia's Journey and Ararat. Author Jonathan Romney shows how films such as Atom 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.

What people say:

"…recommended for all cinema enthusiasts, from die-hard Egoyan aficionados to viewers largely unfamiliar with his work." — James Deutsch, program curator at the Smithsonian Institution and adjunct professor of media at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

About the Author:

Jonathan Romney is Film Critic of the Independent on Sunday and regular contributor to Sight and Sound and Film Comment.