Griffiths, Kate

The history of French literature on film / Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts. - London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 - 311p. - History of world literatures on film .

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"--

9781501311826 9781501311819


Motion pictures and literature.
French literature
Film adaptations.
Motion pictures

791.43657 GRI (TB)