Screening Gender, Framing Genre : : Canadian Literature into Film / / Peter Dickinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dickinson, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Audiences often measure the success of film adaptations by how faithfully they adhere to their original source material. However, fidelity criticism tells only part of the story of adaptation. For example, the changes made to literary sources in the course of creating their film treatments are often fascinating in terms of what they reveal about the different processes of genre recognition and gender identification in both media, as well as the social, cultural, and historical contexts governing their production and reception.In Screening Gender, Framing Genre, Peter Dickinson examines the history and theory of films adapted from Canadian literature through the lens of gender studies. Unique in its discussion of a range of different adaptations, including films based on novels, plays, poetry, and Native orature, this study offers new and often provocative readings of works by such well-known Canadian authors as Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, and Michael Ondaatje, and by such important Canadian filmmakers as Mireille Dansereau, Claude Jutra, Robert LePage, and Bruce McDonald. Drawing with equal facility from film and gender theory, and revealing a thorough knowledge of both literary and cinematic history, Dickinson has written a lively and engaging study that is sure to resonate with readers curious about the intersection of Canadian cultural production and broader issues of gender and national identity formation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literature and Film, Gender and Genre -- 1 Sex Maidens and Yankee Skunks: A Field Guide to Reading 'Canadian' Movies -- 2 Feminism, Fidelity, and the Female Gothic: The Uncanny Art of Adaptation in Kamouraska, Surfacing, and Le sourd dans la ville -- 3 Images of the Indigene: History, Visibility, and Ethnographic Romance in Four Adaptations from the 1990s -- 4 Critically Queenie, or, Trans-Figuring the Prison- House of Gender: Fortune and Men's Eyes and After -- 5 Space, Time, Auteurity, and the Queer Male Body: Policing the Image in the Film Adaptations of Robert Lepage -- 6 Ghosts In and Out of the Machine: Sighting/ Citing Lesbianism in Susan Swan's The Wives of Bath and Lea Pool's Lost and Delirious -- 7 Adapting Masculinity: Michael Turner, Bruce McDonald, and Others -- Filmography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index