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French literature on screen French literature on screen Edited by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer Manchester University Press Copyright © Manchester University Press 2019 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 7849 9517 1 hardback First published 2019 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited For Olympia, in memoriam Contents List of illustrations page ix Notes on contributors xi Acknowledgements xiv 1 Introduction: screening French literature 1 Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer 2 The spectacle of Monte Cristo 12 Jennifer L. Jenkins 3 Adultery and adulteration in film versions of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary 32 Colin Davis 4 For the first time on screen together: Madame Bovary and Les Misérables in 1934 48 Dudley Andrew 5 The Americanization of Victor Hugo: Darryl F. Zanuck’s Les Misérables (1935) 72 Guerric DeBona 6 From heterotopia to metatopia: staging Carmen’s death 90 Phil Powrie 7 From the Recherche on film toward a Proustian cinema 107 Steven Ungar 8 Otto Preminger’s Bonjour, Tristesse: a tale of three women, if not more 130 R. Barton Palmer 9 Adapting Pagnol and Provence 150 Jeremy Strong 10 Maigret on screen: stardom and literary adaptation 165 Ginette Vincendeau 11 The making and remaking of Thérèse Desqueyroux: one novel, two films 183 Susan Hayward viii Contents 12 Elle (2016), rape, and adaptation 211 Homer B. Pettey Select bibliography 230 Index 241
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