BackAndre Bazin on Adaptation
Cinema's Literary Imagination (book in English)
by André Bazin
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Technique > Adaptation
- transposition, screenwriting, André Bazin, literature
- Publishing Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 436 pages • 43 €
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-0-520-37581-9
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Book Presentation:
Adaptation was central to André Bazin’s lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in the novel. The critical genius of one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the twentieth century is on full display in this collection, in which readers are introduced to Bazin's foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation. Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of essays that show Bazin’s film theory in action, followed by reviews of films adapted from renowned novels of the day (Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Colette, Sagan, Duras, and others) as well as classic novels of the nineteenth century (Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, Stendhal, and more). As a bonus, two hundred and fifty years of French fiction are put into play as Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at stake for culture, for literature, and especially for cinema. This volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history, and André Bazin’s criticism.
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Qu'est-ce que le cinéma ? (1962)
4. Une Esthétique de la réalité, le néo-réalisme
by André Bazin
Subject: Film Analysis
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L'Adaptation cinématogra-
phique (2014)
Premières pages, premiers plans
Dir. Delphine Letort and Shannon Weels-Lassagne
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
De l'écrit à l'écran (2007)
Réflexions sur l'adaptation cinématographique
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Zola and Film (2005)
Essays in the Art of Adaptation
Dir. Anna Gural-Migdal and Robert Singer
(in English)
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Littérature et télévision (1996)
Dir. Pierre Beylot and Stéphane Benassi
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Adapter un livre pour le cinéma ou la télévision (2005)
by Linda Seger and Edouard Blanchot
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
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