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George Toles was born on 31 July 1948 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Brand Upon the Brain! (2006) and Windfall (2019).
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Screenwriter and critic George Toles' study of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson focuses on his more recent films, including Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood and The Master. Toles values tracking his deepest personal experiences while watching a movie.
George Toles is distinguished professor of literature and film at the University of Manitoba and the author of A House Made of Light (Wayne State University Press, 2001), Paul Thomas Anderson (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and the recently published Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in Film (SUNY Press, 2021) and Status Update (At Bay ...
Apr 8, 2022 · George Toles is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of several books: A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film, Paul Thomas Anderson and, his most recent, Curtains of Light: Essays on the Methaphysics of Theatrical Space on Film.
GEORGE TOLES is a Distinguished Professor of Film and Literature at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film, Paul Thomas Anderson, and the forthcoming Curtains of Light: Essays on the Metaphysics of Theatrical Space on Film.
Acclaimed film scholar and screenwriter George Toles approaches these three films in particular, and Anderson's oeuvre in general, with a focus on the role of emergence and the production of the unaccountable.
"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.
