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Course Description

Summary

French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another - as early as 1897, Lumière represented the main characters of Hugo’s Les Misérables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Clèves (La Fayette/Sauder), La Religieuse (Diderot/Rivette), La Noire de… (Sembène/Sembène), La Prisonnière/La Captive (Proust/Akerman). Students will focus on the strategies used to turn a book into a film. Students will discuss adaptation theory, exploring notions such as “faithfulness” to a source text, Millicent's Marcus concept of "umbilical scenes", the translation of thought, literary and film metaphors, as well as Glissant's idea of "relation". Advanced. Conducted in French.