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Albertine Disparue
art cinema aesthetics
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Author_Martine Beugnet
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cinematic interpretation of Proust
De Guermantes
De Marcel Proust
De Proust
Direct Time Image
Duchesse De Guermantes
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Exterminating Angel
film adaptation theory
Heritage Genre
Involuntary Memories
Jupien's Brothel
Jupien’s Brothel
La Captive
Le Temps
Les Siens
literary modernism research
Marion Schmid
memory and perception studies
Mlle Vinteuil
Mme De Guermantes
Mme Verdurin
modernist literature
narrative time analysis
Par Ma
Prince De Guermantes
Princesse De Guermantes
Proust's Work
Proust's Writing
Proustian Project
Proust’s Work
Proust’s Writing
Swann's Love
Swann’s Love
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754635413
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of time are undeniable. Proust at the Movies is the first study in English to consider these rich interconnections. Its introductory chapter charts the missed encounter between Proust and the cinema and addresses the problems inherent in adapting his novel to the screen. The following chapters examine the various cinematic responses to A la recherche du temps perdu attempted to date: Luchino Visconti and Joseph Losey's failed attempts at adapting the whole of the novel in the 1970s, Volker Schlöndorff's Un Amour de Swann (1984), Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps retrouvé (1999), Chantal Akerman's La Prisonnière in La Captive (2000), and Fabio Carpi's Quartetto Basileus (1982) and Le Intermittenze del cuore (2003). The last chapter tracks the echoes of Proust's writing in the work of various directors, from Abel Grace to Jean-Luc Godard. The approach is multidisciplinary, combining literary criticism with film theory and elements of philosophy of art. Special attention is given to the modernist legacy in literature and film with its distinctive aesthetic and narrative features. An outline of the history and recent evolution of contemporary art cinema thus emerges: a cinema where the themes at the heart of Proust's work - memory, time, perception - are ceaselessly explored.
Martine Beugnet is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Marginalité, sexualité, contrôle: cinéma français contemporain (2000) and Claire Denis (2004), as well as numerous articles on contemporary French cinema. Marion Schmid is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, UK. A specialist on Proust, she is the author of Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust (1998) and of numerous articles and essays on European nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture.
