French literature on screen

Herausgeber: Palmer, R. Barton; Pettey, Homer B.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation. Using a variety of textual and interpretive approaches, it sheds light on issues of gender, sexuality, class, politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of contexts, from the commercial to the archival and the aesthetic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781784995171
• ISBN-10: 1784995177
• Artikelnr.: 54895463

Autorenporträt

Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: screening French literature
Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer 2 The spectacle of Monte Cristo
Jennifer L. Jenkins 3 Adultery and adulteration in film versions of Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Colin Davis 4 For the first time on screen together: Madame Bovary and Les Misérables in 1934
Dudley Andrew 5 The Americanization of Victor Hugo: Darryl F. Zanuck's Les Misérables (1935)
Guerric DeBona 6 From heterotopia to metatopia: staging Carmen's death
Phil Powrie 7 From the Recherche on film toward a Proustian cinema
Steven Ungar 8 Otto Preminger's Bonjour, Tristesse: a tale of three women, if not more
R. Barton Palmer 9 Adapting Pagnol and Provence
Jeremy Strong 10 Maigret on screen: stardom and literary adaptation
Ginette Vincendeau 11 The making and remaking of Thérèse Desqueyroux: one novel, two films
Susan Hayward 12 Elle (2016), rape, and adaptation
Homer B. Pettey Select bibliography