Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Quebecois Drama

268 Pages·2014·5.236 MB·English

by  Loiselle, A

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Stage-Bound
Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian
and Québécois Drama
andré loiselle
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
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© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003
isbn 0-7735-2610-2
Legal deposit third quarter 2003
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper.
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, using funds provided by
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Funding
was also provided by the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
Carleton University.
McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada
Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the
financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book
Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp) for our publishing
activities.
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Loiselle, André, 1963–
Stage-bound: feature film adaptations of Canadian and Québécois drama /
André Loiselle.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-7735-2610-2
1. Canadian drama – Film and video adaptations. 2. Motion pictures –
Canada – History and criticism. I. Title.
pn1997.85.l63 2003 791.43′6 c2003-901546-7
This book was typeset by Dynagram Inc. in 10.5/13 Sabon.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1 Stage-Bound since 1942 3
2 Early Thresholds of Theatre and Film 30
3 Theatrical Characters Trapped in Cinematic Spaces 75
4 Stages of Liminality and Historical Intervals 117
5 At the Juncture of Theatre and Film There Lies a Corpse 160
6 Conclusion:
Theatricality in Film Adaptations since the 1990s 209
Appendix 221
Notes 225
Works Cited 237
Index 253
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Acknowledgments
I wish to thank the following people for their loving support: Kerri Froc,
Éliane Grenier, Sylvie Loiselle, and Odette Loiselle-Hutsal – as well as
Christine, Jordan, Connor, Garrick, Émilen, Michel, and Ron. Jackie
Lane and her assistants, Mark Larocque and Guimauve, are also to be
thanked for their remarkable work on the still unrealized musical score
for Here Will I Nest. For their moral support and practical help on this
project, I am grateful to: Professors Jerry Wasserman, Brian McIlroy,
and Alain-Michel Rocheleau, whose help in the first stages of this
project was invaluable; Marc Raymond for his rigorous research assis-
tance; Professors Chris Faulkner, Barbara Gabriel, Mark Langer, George
McKnight, Laura Marks, Charles O’Brien, Zuzana Pick, Mitsuyo Wada-
Marciano, and all my colleagues at the School for Studies in Art and
Culture, Carleton University; my friends José Sanchez, Nick Nguyen,
James Missen, Peter Urquhart, Barbara Rockburn, and Malek Khouri;
Lee Carruthers for her helpful comments on the first draft of the book;
the playwrights and filmmakers who, at some point over the past de-
cade, kindly took the time to answer my questions about their work, De-
nys Arcand, Paul Blouin, Michel Marc Bouchard, René-Daniel Dubois,
Robert Favreau, John Greyson, Antonine Maillet, Francis Mankiewicz,
Bachar Shbib, Yves Simoneau, and John Beckett Wimbs; Aurele Parisien,
Robert Lewis, Joan McGilvray, and everyone at McGill-Queen’s Univer-
sity Press who helped me to prepare this book for publication; and the
staff of the National Archives in Ottawa, the Cinémathèque québécoise
in Montreal, and the Film Reference Library in Toronto. This book was
made possible in part by grants from Carleton University and the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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