François Truffaut and Friends : Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation / Robert Stam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stam, Robert, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jules et Jim (Motion picture).

Roche, Henri Pierre, -- 1879-1959. -- Jules et Jim.

Truffaut, Francois--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Jules et Jim (Motion picture).

Roche, Henri Pierre, -- 1879-1959. -- Jules et Jim.

Truffaut, Francois--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of François Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roch. The characters and events of the 1960s film were based on a real-life romantic triangle, begun in the summer of 1920, which involved Roch himself, the German-Jewish writer Franz Hessel, and his wife, the journalist Helen Grund. Drawing on this film and others by Truffaut, Robert Stam provides the first in-depth examination of the multifaceted relationship between Truffaut and Roch. In the process, he provides a unique lens through which to understand how adaptation works-from history to novel, and ultimately to film-and how each form of expression is inflected by the period in which it is created. Truffaut's adaptation of Roch's work, Stam suggests, demonstrates how reworkings can be much more than simply copies of their originals; rather, they can become an immensely creative enterprise-a form of writing in itself. The book also moves beyond Truffaut's film and the mnage--trois involving Roch, Hessel, and Grund to explore the intertwined lives and work of other famous artists and intellectuals, including Marcel Duchamp, Walter Benjamin, and Charlotte Wolff. Tracing the tangled webs that linked these individuals' lives, Stam opens the door to an erotic/writerly territory where the complex interplay of various artistic sensibilities-all mulling over the same nucleus of feelings and events-vividly comes alive.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PRELUDE

1. The Origins of Truffaut’s Jules and Jim

2. The New Wave and Adaptation

3. The Prototype for Jim: Henri-Pierre Roché

4. New York Interlude

5. The Don Juan Books

6. The Prototype for Jules: Franz Hessel and Flânerie

7. Hessel as Novelist

8. Hessel’s Parisian Romance

9. The Prototype for Catherine: Helen Grund Hessel

10. L’Amour Livresque

11. The Polyphonic Project

12. Jules and Jim: The Novel

13. From Novel to Film

14. Disarming the Spectator

15. Polyphonic Eroticism

16. Sexperimental Writing: The Diaries

17. Sexuality/Textuality

18. The Gendered Politics of Flânerie

19. Comparative Écriture

20. Two English Girls: The Novel

21. Two English Girls: The Film

22. The (Various) Men Who Loved (Various) Women

POSTLUDE

TIME LINE

NOTES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-282-13365-9

9786613806239

0-8135-4099-2

OCLC:

799765734