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Screening gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec film adaptation

Bremer, Rose Mary

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2004, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, French and Italian.
My dissertation examines the relationship between film adaptation, gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec cinema. Using Robert Stams work as a point of departure, I examine four adaptations directed by well-known Quebec filmmakers: Les fous de Bassan (Yves Simoneau, 1986), La demoiselle sauvage (Lea Pool, 1991), A corps perdu (Lea Pool, 1988), and Le sexe des etoiles (Paule Baillargeon, 1993). Very little has been written to date on the role of film adaptation in the evolution of Quebec cinema. More often than not, whether in Quebec or elsewhere in the Western world, the study of film and literature has been limited to an examination of the relationship between an individual film and its source text. Stam suggests that film adaptation be looked at as a special kind of intertextual relationship between a hypotext (a source text) and a hypertext (its film adaptation). The concept of intertextuality situates literature and film as part of a complex matrix of discursive practices that underlies all texts produced by a culture, facilitating the analysis of film adaptation and the representation therein as specific to Quebec. Through the course of this study, I situate each of the four films noted above with respect to the sociocultural and economic milieux of production and examine their popular and critical reception. In addition, I provide background on each of the filmmakers as well as on the authors of the pertinent source texts in order to situate the adaptations within Quebec’s literary and cinematic narrative traditions. Furthermore, as Simoneau, Pool and Baillargeon are known for their controversial and innovative representations of gender and sexuality, I examine this aspect of each of these adaptations in-depth.
Judith Mayne (Advisor)
193 p.

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  • Bremer, R. M. (2004). Screening gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec film adaptation [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1085495358

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bremer, Rose. Screening gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec film adaptation. 2004. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1085495358.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bremer, Rose. "Screening gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec film adaptation." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1085495358

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