Madame Bovary at the Movies: Adaptation, Ideology, Context (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789042025042)

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.

Author: Mary Donaldson-Evans
ISBN-10: 9042025042
ISBN-13: 9789042025042
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.50d