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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: screening French literature / 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 Miserables in 1934 / Dudley Andrew
- 5. The Americanization of Victor Hugo: Darryl F. Zanuck's Les Miserables (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 Therese Desqueyroux: one novel, two films / Susan Hayward
- 12. Elle (2016), rape, and adaptation / Homer B. Pettey.


