Performing Arts History & Criticism
Stage-Bound
Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Québécois Drama
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2003
- Category
- History & Criticism
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773526105
- Publish Date
- Oct 2003
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773571464
- Publish Date
- Oct 2003
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
This acknowledgement of their dramatic origins has often led to criticism that these movies remain too rigidly anchored to the stage; too "stage-bound." Stage-Bound, the first extensive study of feature film adaptations of English Canadian and Québécois drama, challenges this reductive interpretation. André Loiselle demonstrates that theatricality is central to the meaning of these works. In the process, he reclaims these stage-bound films, which have generally been ignored by scholars.
About the author
André Loiselle teaches film studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. His main areas of research are Canadian and Québécois cinema, screen adaptations of drama, and the horror film. He has published half a dozen books, including Le Cinéma de Michel Brault, à l’image d’une nation (2005). He is currently working on a new book project provisionally entitled Stage to Scream: The Performance of Villainy in Theatre and Film.