TY - BOOK AU - Griffiths,Kate AU - Watts,Andrew TI - The history of French literature on film T2 - History of world literatures on film SN - 9781501311826 U1 - 791.43657 GRI (TB) 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Motion pictures and literature KW - French literature KW - Film adaptations KW - Motion pictures N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -