Felicia's Journey

by Stephanie McBride

Overview

Felicia's Journey explores the 1999 film adaptation by Director Atom Egoyan of William Trevor's novel of 1994. McBride addresses Hitchcockian influences, the sense of place in the visual discourse, and the characterization of the serial killer Hilditch, as constructed initially by Trevor and interpreted by Egoyan. Eschewing a crude "fidelity" model of adaptation, the study explores Egoyan's screen version as a commentary on, or significant reworking of, the original book. In particular, Egoyan's extension of the mother figure, through his creation of Gala, opens questions about memory, representation, and cinema's capacity as a reflexive medium which is a central feature of his film art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859183991
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2007
Series:	Ireland into Film Series
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.40(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephanie McBride teaches in the School of Communications, Dublin City University. She is author of the publication, The Cinema of Place/The Place of Cinema. A member of the Board of the Irish Film Insitute, she is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Irish Gallery of Photography.

Gráinne Humphreys is image editor for the Series. She is Head of Education at the Irish Film Institute.

Keith Hopper teaches Literature and Film Studies for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education and for St Clare’s International College, Oxford. He is general editor of the Ireland into Film series (2001-2007).

Table of Contents

1) Introduction: Social and Cultural Contexts; 2) Narrative Image: Cover Versions; 3) In the First Place: William Trevor's Fictional Landscape; 4) Novel Departures; 5) Motherland; 6) Psycho Killers: Hitchcock, Genre and Felicia's Journey; 7) The Raw and the Cooked: Food, Hilditch and Film; 8) 'You Belong to Me': Popular Song in Felicia's Journey; 9) Memory Texts; Credits, Notes; Bibliography.