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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
Other Authors: Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- (Editor), Pettey, Homer B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.