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The history of French literature on film / Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of world literatures on filmPublication details: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021Description: 311pISBN:
  • 9781501311826
  • 9781501311819
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43657 GRI (TB) 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: "This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of French literature analyses the reworking of a key body of writing from the silent era to the present"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of French literature analyses the reworking of a key body of writing from the silent era to the present"--

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