The History of French Literature on Film

Kate Griffiths, Andrew Watts (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1184-0 (ISBN)

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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of French literature are thus not only valuable artistic artefacts in their own right, so too are they important historical documents which testify to the values and tastes of their own time.

Kate Griffiths is Professor of French and Translation Studies at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. She has published widely on the multimedia adaptation of literary sources. Her first book focused on literature and cinema (Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation, 2009) and her second on multi-media adaptation of nineteenth-century texts (Adapting Nineteenth-Century France, 2013). Her third book analysed the relationship between literature and television, (Zola and the Art of Television, 2020) She is currently working on a monograph on the adaptation of world literature on BBC radio. Andrew Watts is Reader in French Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Preserving the Provinces: Small Town and Countryside in the Work of Honoré de Balzac (2007), co-author (with Kate Griffiths) of Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print (2013), and co-editor (with Owen Heathcote) of The Cambridge Companion to Balzac (2017). He has written numerous articles and book chapters on multimedia adaptation, most notably in relation to nineteenth-century French literature.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction
Kate Griffiths

1.The Currency of Adaptation: Art and Money in Silent Cinema (1899–1929)
Andrew Watts

2.Who is Adaptation? Interpersonal Transactions in Film (1927–39)
Kate Griffiths

3.Politics, Propaganda, and the Censored Screen: Adapting French Literature during the German Occupation (1940–44)
Andrew Watts

4.The Formative Function of the Dominant Film Poetics: The Impact of Film Movement, Moment, and Genre (1945–70)
Kate Griffiths

5.The History of Adaptation/Adaptation and History (1970–2004)
Kate Griffiths

6.Textual Migration and Adaptive Diaspora: French Literature Adaptations Beyond France (1996–2016)
Andrew Watts

Conclusion
Andrew Watts

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	The History of World Literatures on Film
Zusatzinfo	47 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-1184-0 / 1501311840
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-1184-0 / 9781501311840
Zustand	Neuware