French Literature on Screen

Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of ArizonaR. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University

• Introduction: screening French literature - Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer2 The spectacle of Monte Cristo - Jennifer L. Jenkins3 Adultery and adulteration in film versions of Flaubert's Madame Bovary - Colin Davis4 For the first time on screen together: Madame Bovary and Les Misérables in 1934 - Dudley Andrew5 The Americanization of Victor Hugo: Darryl F. Zanuck's Les Misérables (1935) - Guerric DeBona6 From heterotopia to metatopia: staging Carmen's death - Phil Powrie7 From the Recherche on film toward a Proustian cinema - Steven Ungar8 Otto Preminger's Bonjour, Tristesse: a tale of three women, if not more - R. Barton Palmer9 Adapting Pagnol and Provence - Jeremy Strong10 Maigret on screen: stardom and literary adaptation - Ginette Vincendeau11 The making and remaking of Thérèse Desqueyroux: one novel, two films - Susan Hayward12 Elle (2016), rape, and adaptation - Homer B. PetteySelect bibliography