French Literature On Screen

Author : Homer B. Pettey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526133164
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French literature on screen written by Homer B. Pettey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 archival and the aesthetic. The chapters, written by eminent international scholars, run chronologically from The Count of Monte Cristo through Proust and Bonjour, Tristesse to Philippe Djian’s Oh... (adapted for the screen as Elle). Collectively, they fill a need for contemporary discussions on the significance of France’s literary representations in the history of global cinema.

Author : Kate Griffiths
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501311824
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of French Literature on Film written by Kate Griffiths and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary directed by Sophie Barthes, The History of French Literature on Film explores the key films, directors, and movements that have shaped the adaptation of works by French authors since the end of the 19th century. Across six chapters, Griffiths and Watts examine the factors that have driven this vibrant adaptive industry, as filmmakers have turned to literature in search of commercial profits, cultural legitimacy, and stories rich in dramatic potential. The volume also explains how the work of theorists from a variety of disciplines (literary theory, translation theory, adaptation theory), can help to deepen both our understanding and our appreciation of literary adaptation as a creative practice. Finally, this volume seeks to make clear that adaptation is never a simple transcription of an earlier literary work. It is always simultaneously an adaptation of the society and era for which it is created. Adaptations of French literature are thus not only valuable artistic artefacts in their own right, so too are they important historical documents which testify to the values and tastes of their own time.

Author : Thomas Jefferson Kline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening the Text written by Thomas Jefferson Kline and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To make his case, Kline establishes the international range of the literary and cultural texts "screened" by Truffaut, Malle, Chabrol, Rohmer, Bresson, Godard, and Resnais. Their fascination with American film is well known, but their references extend well beyond--to classical mythology, to contemporary and classical French literature, and to a variety of Russian, Norwegian, German, and English writers and philosophers. Armed with terms such as auteur and camera stylo, the new cineastes engaged directly in "film writing," even while rejecting the orderliness required by straightforward adaptation of written works.

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827553
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.

Author : H. Shachar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137262877
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature written by H. Shachar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine. With a particular focus on Wuthering Heights , the book examines adaptations made from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, providing an understanding of how they help shape our cultural landscape.

Author : Kate Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501311833
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of French Literature on Film written by Kate Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Deceptive binaries : adaptations and their literary sources / Kate Griffiths -- The currency of adaptation : art and money in silent cinema (1899-1929) / Andrew Watts -- Who is adaptation? Interpersonal transactions in film (1927-39) / Kate Griffiths -- Politics, propaganda, and the censored screen : adapting French literature during the German occupation (1940-44) / Andrew Watts -- The formative function of the dominant film poetics : the impact of film movement, moment, and genre (1945-70) / Kate Griffiths -- The history of adaptation; adaptation and history (1970-2004) / Kate Griffiths -- Textual migration and adaptive diaspora : French literature adaptations beyond France (1996-2016) / Andrew Watts.

Author : Robert Stam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047099911X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Literature and Film written by Robert Stam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema

Author : Aoife Connolly
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781498537377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing the Pied-Noir Family written by Aoife Connolly and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs following their mass migration to France in 1962. It breaks new ground by focusing on the family trope, including gender and youth, to reveal constructions of collective memory and identity post-Algerian independence.

Author : Marc Olivier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253046580
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Horror written by Marc Olivier and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar examines 14 everyday objects featured in horror films and how they manifest their power and speak to society’s fears. Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie’s prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In Household Horror, Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema. Inspired by object-oriented ontology and the nonhuman turn in philosophy, Olivier places objects in film on par with humans, arguing, for example, that a sleeper sofa is as much the star of Sisters as Margot Kidder, that The Exorcist is about a possessed bed, and that Rosemary’s Baby is a conflict between herbal shakes and prenatal vitamins. Household Horror reinvigorates horror film criticism by investigating the unfathomable being of objects as seemingly benign as remotes, radiators, refrigerators, and dining tables. Olivier questions what Hitchcock’s Psycho tells us about shower curtains. What can we learn from Freddie Krueger’s greatest accomplice, the mattress? Room by room, Olivier considers the dark side of fourteen household objects to demonstrate how the objects in these films manifest their own power and connect with specific cultural fears and concerns. “Provides a lively and highly original contribution to horror studies. As a work on cinema, it introduces the reader to films that may be less well-known to casual fans and scholars; more conspicuously, it returns to horror staples, gleefully reanimating works that one might otherwise assume had been critically “done to death” (Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining).” —Allan Cameron, University of Auckland

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400835488
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 written by Richard Abel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of André Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.