Madame Bovary at the Movies: Adaptation, Ideology, Context - Softcover

Donaldson-Evans, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042025042 ISBN 13: 9789042025042

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2008

Synopsis

Some eighteen film directors from France to the United States, Germany to India, have applied themselves to the task of adapting Madame Bovary to the screen. Why has Flaubert's 1857 classic novel been so popular with filmmakers? What challenges have they had to meet? What ideologies do their adaptations serve? Madame Bovary at the Movies seeks to answer these questions, avoiding value judgments based on the notion of fidelity to the novel. In-depth analyses are reserved for the studio films of Renoir, Minnelli and Chabrol and the small-screen adaptation of Fywell. As the first book-length examination of the Madame Bovary adaptations, this volume, in addition to its pedagogical applications, will be a useful reference for scholars of literature and film and for those interested in the burgeoning field of adaptation studies.

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About the Author:

The author of A Woman’s Revenge: The Chronology of Dispossession in Guy de Maupassant’s Fiction (French Forum Monographs, 1986) and Medical Examinations: Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose (1857-1894) (University of Nebraska Press, 2000), Mary Donaldson-Evans is Elias Ahuja Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9042025042
• ISBN 13: 9789042025042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218