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Proust at the Movies (Paperback)
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Proust at the Movies (Paperback)
Series: Studies in European Cultural Transition
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Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the
same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la
recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest
in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic
representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of
writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of
time are undeniable. Proust at the Movies is the first study in
English to consider these rich interconnections. Its introductory
chapter charts the missed encounter between Proust and the cinema
and addresses the problems inherent in adapting his novel to the
screen. The following chapters examine the various cinematic
responses to A la recherche du temps perdu attempted to date:
Luchino Visconti and Joseph Losey's failed attempts at adapting the
whole of the novel in the 1970s, Volker SchlAndorff's Un Amour de
Swann (1984), Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps retrouve (1999), Chantal
Akerman's La Prisonniere in La Captive (2000), and Fabio Carpi's
Quartetto Basileus (1982) and Le Intermittenze del cuore (2003).
The last chapter tracks the echoes of Proust's writing in the work
of various directors, from Abel Grace to Jean-Luc Godard. The
approach is multidisciplinary, combining literary criticism with
film theory and elements of philosophy of art. Special attention is
given to the modernist legacy in literature and film with its
distinctive aesthetic and narrative features. An outline of the
history and recent evolution of contemporary art cinema thus
emerges: a cinema where the themes at the heart of Proust's work -
memory, time, perception - are ceaselessly explored.
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