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Performing Arts History & Criticism

Stage-Bound

Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Québécois Drama

by (author) André Loiselle

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2003
Category
History & Criticism
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773526105
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773571464
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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