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