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French literature on screen /

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 ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pettey, Homer B. (Editor), Palmer, R. Barton (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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