Les Misérables and Its Afterlives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Les Misérables and Its Afterlives write by Kathryn M. Grossman. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Les Misérables and Its Afterlives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, this collection offers analysis of both the novel itself and its adaptations. In spite of a mixed response from critics, Les Misérables instantly became a global bestseller. Since its successful publication over 150 years ago, it has traveled across different countries, cultures, and media, giving rise to more than 60 international film and television variations, numerous radio dramatizations, animated versions, comics, and stage plays. Most famously, it has inspired the world's longest running musical, which itself has generated a wealth of fan-made and online content. Whatever its form, Hugo’s tale of social injustice and personal redemption continues to permeate the popular imagination. This volume draws together essays from across a variety of fields, combining readings of Les Misérables with reflections on some of its multimedia afterlives, including musical theater and film from the silent period to today's digital platforms. The contributors offer new insights into the development and reception of Hugo's celebrated classic, deepening our understanding of the novel as a work that unites social commentary with artistic vision and raising important questions about the cultural practice of adaptation.
Les Miserables and Its Afterlives Between Page Stage and Screen
Les Miserables and Its Afterlives Between Page Stage and Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Les Miserables and Its Afterlives Between Page Stage and Screen write by Kathryn M. Grossman. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Les Miserables and Its Afterlives Between Page Stage and Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, this collection combines readings of the best-selling novel with reflections on how it has permeated the popular imagination through a selection of its multimedia adaptations including musical theater and film from the silent period to today's digital platforms. The essays deepen our understanding of Les Misérables as a work that blends social commentary with artistic vision and raise important questions about the cultural practice of adaptation.
Les Misérables and Its Afterlives
Les Misérables and Its Afterlives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Les Misérables and Its Afterlives write by Kathryn M. Grossman. This book was released on 2015. Les Misérables and Its Afterlives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The History of French Literature on Film
The History of French Literature on Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of French Literature on Film write by Kate Griffiths. This book was released on 2020-12-24. The History of French Literature on Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
French literature on screen
French literature on screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French literature on screen write by Homer B. Pettey. This book was released on 2019-05-16. French literature on screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation. Using a variety of textual and interpretive approaches, it sheds light on issues of gender, sexuality, class, politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of contexts, from the commercial to the archival and the aesthetic. The chapters, written by eminent international scholars, run chronologically from The Count of Monte Cristo through Proust and Bonjour, Tristesse to Philippe Djian’s Oh... (adapted for the screen as Elle). Collectively, they fill a need for contemporary discussions on the significance of France’s literary representations in the history of global cinema.
