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

• Pubblicazione: Ottawa, ON : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2013; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/657
• Soggetto topico: Film adaptations - History and criticism; Canadian literature - Film adaptations; Motion pictures and literature - Canada
• Altri autori: JarrawayDavid R
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Double-Takes
• ISBN: 0-7766-1988-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155520103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Re-appraisals, Canadian writers.