Zola And Film

Author : Anna Gural-Migdal,Robert Singer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786421152

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Zola and Film by Anna Gural-Migdal,Robert Singer Pdf

French novelist Emile Zola, noted for his championship of the Naturalist novel, has been one of the most adapted authors in world literature. There have been approximately 80 film adaptations of his late 19th century novels and short stories, many of which occurred during the silent era of international film production (1895-1927). While the aesthetic elements of Zola's fiction continue to appeal to international cinema, the author's thematic naturalism and his "scientific methodology" have provided an ideological framework that incorporates art, science and history into the many cinematic adaptations of his work. This collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and film, explores the dynamic relationship between Zola's fiction and its film adaptations, examining critically significant cinematic adaptations of Zola's novels from a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. The 13 essays discuss the adaptation of Zola's works within the limitations of the silent cinema; the challenges posed by film censorship and the notoriety of the author's naturalist text; the ideological inflection given to Zola's working class narratives; and Zola's representation of women. Zola's works are placed within their respective historical contexts, as the essays address encoded anti-Nazi sentiment in films produced under the German occupation of France during World War II and the French Communist Party's reception of the filmic adaptation of Germinal. Other adapted works addressed in these chapters include La Terre, Nana, La Bete humaine, Au Bonheur des Dames, Therese Raquin, Gervaise and Pot-Bouille.

Author : Bill Gunn
Publisher : I Reed Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112002671854

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Rhinestone Sharecropping by Bill Gunn Pdf

Author : Kate Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351194136

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Emile Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation by Kate Griffiths Pdf

"Filmmakers have drawn inspiration from the pages of Emile Zola from the earliest days of cinema. The ever-growing number of adaptations they have produced spans eras, genres, languages, and styles. In spite of the diversity of these approaches, numerous critics regard them as inferior copies of a superior textual original. But key novels by Zola resist this critical approach to adaptation. Both at the level of characterization and in terms of their own textual inheritance, they question the very possibility of origin, be it personal or textual. In the light of this questioning, the cinematic versions created from Zolas texts merit critical re-evaluation. Far from being facile copies of the nineteenth-century novelists works, these films assess their own status as adaptations, playing with both notions of artistic creation and their own artistic act. Kate Griffiths is a lecturer in French at Swansea University."

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191506451

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La Bête humaine by Émile Zola Pdf

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Émile Zola,Brian Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198828563

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The Assommoir by Émile Zola,Brian Nelson Pdf

'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to start her business she must incur debt, and her feckless husband cannot resist the lure of the Assommoir, the local bar that supplies all the working men with cheap spirits and absinthe. As her money troubles grow, so Gervaise's life begins to spiral out of control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect. The Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. In it he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass, living in overcrowded tenements, addicted to drink, a world of squalor, and casual violence. It contains some of Zola's most powerful and graphic writing, unforgettable portrayals of individuals and their environment, and the fine line between self-respect and ruin.

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143123556

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In Secret by Émile Zola Pdf

"First published as Theerese Raquin in Great Britain by Grant Richards 1902"--Title page verso.

Author : Kate Griffiths,Andrew Watts
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783165575

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Adapting Nineteenth-Century France by Kate Griffiths,Andrew Watts Pdf

Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals to be defended from adapting hands, but fashioned from the adapted voices of a host of earlier artists, moments and media. The text analyses re-workings of key nineteenth-century texts across time and media in order to underline the way in which such re-workings cast new light on many of their source texts and reveal the probing analysis nineteenth-century novelists undertake in relation to notions of originality and authorial borrowing. Moreover, Adapting Nineteeth-Century France traces their subsequent recreations in a comparable range of genres, encompassing key modern media of the twentieth- and twenty-first-centuries: radio, silent film, fiction, musical theatre, sound film and television.

Author : A. O. Scott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781101980866

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Better Living Through Criticism by A. O. Scott Pdf

The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics--himself included--can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative, and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point--everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille--Scott expands outward, easily guiding readers through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn.' Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive. "The time for criticism is always now," Scott explains, "because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away."

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571312030

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The Disappearance of Émile Zola by Michael Rosen Pdf

It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola flees to England with no idea when he will return.This is the little-known story of his time in exile. Rosen has traced Zola's footsteps from the Gare du Nord to London, examining the significance of this year. The Disappearance of Zola offers an intriguing insight into the mind, the loves, the politics and the work of the great writer.

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788074849978

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The Attack on the Mill by Émile Zola Pdf

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : Iboo Press House
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1641815132

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Germinal by Émile Zola Pdf

iBoo Press House uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work. We preserve the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. All titles are designed with a nice cover, quality paper and a large font that's easy to read.

Author : Jeremy O Harris
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0573708789

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Slave Play by Jeremy O Harris Pdf

The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation - in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in 21st-century America. "Slave Play is the single most daring thing I've seen in a theater in a long time." - Wesley Morris, The New York Times "Uncomfortably funny and gruesomely sexy. Should you laugh or keep quiet? You can't know until the ordeal is done - and even then, the uncertainty may linger for days." - Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker "Wisdom and timeliness ripple through Slave Play. This play is lit." - Soraya Nadia McDonald, The Undefeated

Author : Daniel Eagan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780826429773

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America's Film Legacy by Daniel Eagan Pdf

Collection of the five hundred films that have been selected, to date, for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, and are thereby listed in the National Film Registry.

Author : Chris Cagle
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813576954

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Sociology on Film by Chris Cagle Pdf

After World War II, Hollywood’s “social problem films”—tackling topical issues that included racism, crime, mental illness, and drug abuse—were hits with critics and general moviegoers alike. In an era of film famed for its reliance on pop psychology, these movies were a form of popular sociology, bringing the academic discipline’s concerns to a much broader audience. Sociology on Film examines how the postwar “problem film” translated contemporary policy debates and intellectual discussions into cinematic form in order to become one of the preeminent genres of prestige drama. Chris Cagle chronicles how these movies were often politically fractious, the work of progressive directors and screenwriters who drew scrutiny from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Yet he also proposes that the genre helped to construct an abstract discourse of “society” that served to unify a middlebrow American audience. As he considers the many forms of print media that served to inspire social problem films, including journalism, realist novels, and sociological texts, Cagle also explores their distinctive cinematic aesthetics. Through a close analysis of films like Gentleman’s Agreement, The Lost Weekend, and Intruder in the Dust, he presents a compelling case that the visual style of these films was intimately connected to their more expressly political and sociological aspirations. Sociology on Film demonstrates how the social problem picture both shaped and reflected the middle-class viewer’s national self-image, making a lasting impact on Hollywood’s aesthetic direction.

Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198837565

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Émile Zola: a Very Short Introduction by Brian Nelson Pdf

�mile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized bourgeois society. Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, including the realities of working-class life, class relations, and questions of gender and sexuality, and his writing embodied a new freedom of expression, with his bold, outspoken voice often inviting controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian Nelson examines Zola's major themes and narrative art. He illuminates the social and political contexts of Zola's work, and provides readings of five individual novels (The Belly of Paris, L'Assommoir, The Ladies' Paradise, Germinal, and Earth). Zola's naturalist theories, which attempted to align literature with science, helped to generate the stereotypical notion that his fiction was somehow nonfictional. Nelson, however, reveals how the most distinctive elements of Zola's writing go far beyond his theoretical naturalism, giving his novels their unique force. Throughout, he sets Zola's work in context, considering his relations with contemporary painters, his role in the Dreyfus Affair, and his eventual murder. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.