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Stage-Bound
André Loiselle
其他書名
Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Québécois Drama
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2003
主題ART / Film & VideoDrama / CanadianPerforming Arts / Dance / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / History & Criticism
ISBN07735261029780773526105
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=10XN_enOowMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Since the 1990s many of Canada's best-known filmmakers, such as Denys Arcand, John Greyson and Robert Lepage, have looked to the stage for inspiration. While feature-film adaptations of Canadian plays have become increasingly common, the practice of turning drama into film began in Canada in 1942 when Hilda Hooke Smith's Here Will I Nest was brought to the screen. Some adaptations, such as Wedding in White and Being at Home with Claude, enjoyed a fair measure of success; others, such as Me and Les Célébrations, have fallen into oblivion. Some stayed close to the dramatic structure of the original; others sought to explode the limits of the stage to create a greater cinematic effect. But virtually all adaptations have engaged with, rather than denied, their theatrical origins. 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.