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History of French Literature on Film

Kate Griffiths | Andrew Watts
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  • ISBN 9781501311840
  • Weight: 608g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Dec 2020
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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of French literature are thus not only valuable artistic artefacts in their own right, so too are they important historical documents which testify to the values and tastes of their own time.
About Andrew Watts | Kate Griffiths

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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