Double-Takes Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film / edited by David R. Jarraway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jarraway, David R.

Series:

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers.

Reappraisals: Canadian writers ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Canadian literature--Film adaptations.

Canadian literature.

Motion pictures and literature--Canada.

Motion pictures and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, ON : University of Ottawa Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.

Contents:

COVER ; TITLE PAGE ; COPYRIGHT NOTICE; DEDICATION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE : REALISM AND ITS "OTHERS"; Beyond the National-Realist Text: Imagining the Impossible Nation in Contemporary Canadian Cinema; Griersonian "Actuality" and Social Protest in Dorothy Livesay's Documentary Poems; "Stunning and Strange": Iceland as Memory and Prophecy in Alice Munro's "White Dump" and Sarah Polley's "Away from Her"; Maddin, Melodrama and the Pre-National; Dialogic Phantasy in Bruce McDonald's Adaptive Narratives; PART TWO : ADAPTATION, FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Reading Canadian Film Credits: Adapting Institutions, Systems and AffectsSisters in the Wilderness: Mythologizing Catharine Parr Traill; "Triumph" in the Backwoods: The CBC's Take on Moodie and Traill in Sisters in the Wilderness (2000); The Director's Medium: Richard Attenborough's De-Authorization of Grey Owl; Narrative Structure and Narrative Voices in The English Patient: Film and Novel-A Comparative Study; Loser Wins: The Rhetoric of High Modernism in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Why They Cannot Get It Right: A Reader's Notes about Richler on Screen

"[I]t's my nature": A Comparison of Hagar Shipley's Pride in The Stone Angel Novel and FilmPART THREE : IDENTITY: "TO BE OR NOT TO BE"; Why Sex Matters in Canadian Film and Literature; The Nature of Things: Coupland, Cinema and the Canadian Sixties and Seventies; Adapting Men to New Times? Engagements with Masculinism in John Howe's Why Rock the Boat?; Filming Music: Adapting Transnational Sound in The English Patient and Fugitive Pieces; "Something's missing": Exploding Girlhood and Narrative in The Tracey Fragments; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; Reappraisals: Canadian Writers

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7766-1988-8

OCLC:

821261819