SOURCE: Kirtz, Mary K. “Canadian Book, American Film: Shoeless Joe Transfigured on a Field of Dreams.” Literature Film Review 23 (1995): 26-31.

In the following essay, Kirtz asserts that differences based on nationality are evident in Kinsella's Canadian novel Shoeless Joe and the American film adaptation Field of Dreams.

In the opening and shutting of heaven's gate, Are you able to play the feminine part? 

Lao Tzu Tao Teh Ching

Canadian poet Germaine Warkentin once observed that when Americans and Canadians look at each other, it is as if they are looking through a one-way mirror: Canadians look and see Americans, but Americans look and see only themselves. Warkentin's inspired observation of this one-sided relationship resulting from the imbalance of power between the United States and its decidedly weaker neighbor is also a commonly used metaphor in feminist literary and film theory.¹ The zeitgeist of a country's popular culture reflects...