French literature on screen / edited by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pettey, Homer B., editor.

Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Film adaptations--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--History and criticism.

Motion pictures--France--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

French literature on screen is a multi-author volume whose eleven chapters plus an introduction offer case histories of the screen versions of major literary works by such authors as Victor Hugo, Marcel Proust, Françoise Sagan, and George Simenon. Written by leading experts in the field, the various chapters in this volume offer insightful investigations of the artistic, cultural, and industrial processes that have made screen versions of French literary classics a central element of the national cinema.French literature on screen breaks new scholarly ground by offering the first trans-national account of this important cultural development. These film adaptations have been important in both the American and British cinemas as well. English language screen adaptations of French literature evince the complexity of the relationship between the two texts, the two media, as well as opening up new avenues to explore studio decisions to contract and distribute this particular type of 'foreign' cinema to American and British audiences. In many respects, the 'foreign' quality of master works of the French literary canon remain their appeal over the decades from the silent era to the present.The essays in this volume also address theoretical concerns about the interdependent relationship between literary and film texts; the status of the 'author', and the process of interpretation will be addressed in these essays, as will dialogical, intertextual, and transtextual approaches to adaptation.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781526133151

1526133156

OCLC:

1101173720