The Resource Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory, Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki
Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory, Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki
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The item Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory, Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry. Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a "reciprocal pressure dance." Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger. In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory
- Title
- Run towards the danger
- Title remainder
- confrontations with a body of memory
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry. Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a "reciprocal pressure dance." Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger. In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Polley, Sarah
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Polley, Sarah
- Screenwriters
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Psychic trauma
- Memory
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory, Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki
- Control code
- on1241255734
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735242883
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory, Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki
- Control code
- on1241255734
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735242883
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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Brodie Resource LibraryBorrow it216 S. Brodie St, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7E 1C2, CA48.381806 -89.246333
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Mary J. L. Black BranchBorrow it901 S. Edward St, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7E 6R2, CA48.371764 -89.278579
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Waverley Resource LibraryBorrow it285 Red River Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 1A9, CA48.436426 -89.223125
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