TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pettey,Homer B.
AU  - Palmer,R.Barton
TI  - French literature on screen /edited by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
SN  - 9781526133151
AV  - PN1990-1997 .F746 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - French literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Film adaptations
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1 and index; Introduction: screening French literature; Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer --; The spectacle of Monte Cristo; Jennifer L. Jenkins --; Adultery and adulteration in film versions of Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Colin Davis --; For the first time on screen together: Madame Bovary and Les Misérables in 1934; Dudley Andrew --; The Americanization of Victor Hugo: Darryl F. Zanuck's Les Misérables (1935) --; From heterotopia to metatopia: staging Carmen's death; Phil Powrie --; From the Recherche on film toward a Proustian cinema; Steven Ungar --; Otto Preminger's Bonjour, Tristesse: a tale of three women, if not more; R. Barton Palmer --; Adapting Pagnol and Provence; Jeremy Strong --; Maigret on screen: stardom and literary adaptation; Ginette Vincendeau --; The making and remaking of Thérèse Desqueyroux: one novel, two films; Susan Hayward --; Elle (2016), rape, and adaptation; Homer B. Pettey; 2; b
N2  - 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. The chapters, written by eminent international scholars, run chronologically from The Count of Monte Cristo through Proust and Bonjour, Tristesse to Philippe Djian's Oh. (adapted for the screen as Elle). Collectively, they fill a need for contemporary discussions on the significance of France's literary representations in the history of global cinema
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