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François Truffaut and friends : modernism, sexuality, and film adaptation / Robert Stam.
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Stam, Robert, 1941-
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English
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
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xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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PN1998.3.T78 S74 2006
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Jules et Jim (Motion picture)
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Deux Anglaises et le continent (Motion picture)
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Truffaut, François
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History and criticism
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Roché, Henri Pierre 1879-1959
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Jules et Jim
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Roché, Henri Pierre 1879-1959
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Deux Anglaises et le continent
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Summary note
Annotation One of Franois Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roch. The characters and events of the 1960s film were based on a real-life romantic triangle, begun in the summer of 1920, which involved Roch himself, the German-Jewish writer Franz Hessel, and his wife, the journalist Helen Grund. Drawing on this film and others by Truffaut, Robert Stam provides the first in-depth examination of the multifaceted relationship between Truffaut and Roch. In the process, he provides a unique lens through which to understand how adaptation works-from history to novel, and ultimately to film-and how each form of expression is inflected by the period in which it is created. Truffaut's adaptation of Roch's work, Stam suggests, demonstrates how reworkings can be much more than simply copies of their originals; rather, they can become an immensely creative enterprise-a form of writing in itself. The book also moves beyond Truffaut's film and the mnage--trois involving Roch, Hessel, and Grund to explore the intertwined lives and work of other famous artists and intellectuals, including Marcel Duchamp, Walter Benjamin, and Charlotte Wolff. Tracing the tangled webs that linked these individuals' lives, Stam opens the door to an erotic/writerly territory where the complex interplay of various artistic sensibilities-all mulling over the same nucleus of feelings and events-vividly comes alive.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.
Contents
The origins of Truffaut's Jules and Jim
The new wave and adaptation
The prototype for Jim: Henri-Pierre Roché
New York interlude
The Don Juan books
The prototype for Jules: Franz Hessel and Flânerie
Hessel as novelist
Hessel's Parisian Romance
The prototype for Catherine: Helen Grund Hessel
L'Amour Livresque
The polyphonic project
Jules and Jim: the novel
From novel to film
Disarming the spectator
Polyphonic eroticism
Sexperimental writing: the diaries
Sexuality/textuality
The gendered politics of Flânerie
Comparative Écriture
Two English Girls: the novel
Two English Girls: the film
The (various) men who loved (various) women.
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ISBN
081353724X ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
0813537258 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780813537245
9780813537252
LCCN
2005011271
OCLC
59279745
International Article Number
9780813537245
9780813537252
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