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

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...

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