Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Media Res: Atom Egoyan's Utopian Praxis -- Section 1 Media Technologies, Aura, and Redemption -- 1 Artifice and Artifact: Technology and the Performance of Identity -- 2 Fetish and Aura: Modes of Technological Engagement in Family Viewing -- 3 The Adjuster: Playing House -- 4 The Thirteenth Church: Musical Structures in Atom Egoyan's Calendar -- 5 The Passing of Celluloid, the Endurance of the Image: Egoyan, Steenbeckett, and Krapp's Last Tape -- Section 2 Diasporic Histories and the Exile of Meaning -- 6 Mobile Subjectivity and Micro-territories: Placing the Diaspora -- 7 Telling a Horror Story, Conscientiously: Representing the Armenian Genocide from Open House to Ararat -- 8 History and Memory, Repetition and Epistolarity -- 9 The Double's Choice: The Immigrant Experience in Atom Egoyan's Next of Kin -- 10 Atom Egoyan's Post-exilic Imaginary: Representing Homeland, Imagining Family -- Section 3 Pathologies/Ontologies of the Visual -- 11 Modes of Perception: Visuality, Culpability, and Innocence -- 12 Speaking Parts: The Geometry of Desire -- 13 Look but Don't Touch: Visual and Tactile Desire in Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, and Felicia's Journey -- 14 To Blame Her Sadness: Representing Incest in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter -- 15 Close: Voyeurism and the Idea of the Baroque -- 16 Seeing and Hearing Atom Egoyan's Salome -- Section 4 Conversations -- 17 An Imaginary Armenian Canadian Homeland: Gariné Torossian's Dialogue with Egoyan -- 18 Ripple Effects: Atom Egoyan Speaks with Monique Tschofen -- Filmography: Atom Egoyan's Oeuvre: Theatre, Film, Opera, Installation -- Bibliography: Comprehensive Bibliography on Atom Egoyan -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.