The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.

David Jarraway is professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Question of Belief: "Metaphysician in the Dark" (1993) and Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (2003), both in the "Horizons in Theory and American Culture" Series at Louisiana State University Press.

INTRODUCTION: David Jarraway
PART ONE: REALISM AND ITS "OTHERS"
Chapter 1: Beyond the National-Realist Text: Imagining the Impossible Nation in Contemporary Canadian Cinema by Jim Leach
Chapter 2: Griersonian "Actuality" and Social Protest in Dorothy Livesay's Documentary Poems by Tania Aguila-Way
Chapter 3: "Stunning and Strange": Iceland as Memory and Prophecy in Alice Munro's "White Dump" and Sarah Polley's "Away from Her'" by Nadine Fladd
Chapter 4: Maddin, Melodrama, and the Pre-National by Jennifer Henderson and Brian Johnson
Chapter 5: Dialogic Phantasy in Bruce McDonald's Adaptive Narratives by Gregory Betts
PART TWO: ADAPTATION, FOR BETTER OR WORSE
Chapter 6: Reading Canadian Film Credits: Adapting Institutions, Systems, and Affects by Peter Dickinson
Chapter 7: Sisters in the Wilderness: Mythologizing Catharine Parr Traill by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr
Chapter 8: "'Triumph" in the Backwoods: The CBC's Take on Moodie and Traill in Sisters in the Wilderness (2000) by Christa Zeller Thomas
Chapter 9: The Director's Medium: Richard Attenborough's De-Authorization of Grey Owl by Albert Braz
Chapter 10: Narrative Structure and Narrative Voices in The English Patient: Film And Novel--A Comparative Study by Christine Evain
Chapter 11: Loser Wins: The Rhetoric of High Modernism in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Bradley D. Clissold
Chapter 12: Why They Cannot Get It Right: A Reader's Notes about Richler on Screen by Natalia Vesselova
Chapter 13: "'[I]t's my nature": A Comparison of Hagar Shipley's Pride in The Stone Angel Novel and Film by Carmela Coccimiglio
PART THREE: IDENTITY: "TO BE, OR NOT TO BE"
Chapter 14: Why Sex Matters in Canadian Film and Literature by Katherine Monk
Chapter 15: The Nature of Things: Coupland, Cinema and the Canadian Sixties and Seventies by Andrew Burke
Chapter 16: Adapting Men to New Times?: Engagements with Maculinism in John Howe's Why Rock the Boat? by Elspeth Tulloch
Chapter 17: Filming Music: Adapting Transnational Sound in The English Patient and Fugitive Pieces by Katherine McLeod
Chapter 18: "'Something's missing": Exploding Girlhood in The Tracy Fragments by Tanis MacDonald