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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155520103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, ON : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2013

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-7766-1988-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Collana

Reappraisals: Canadian writers ; ; 35

Altri autori (Persone)

JarrawayDavid R

Disciplina

791.43/657

Soggetti

Film adaptations - History and criticism

Canadian literature - Film adaptations

Motion pictures and literature - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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