... University) Berenice Bonhomme, Triptyque de Claude Simon. Du livre au film. Une esthetique du passage. Fasano-Paris, Schena Editore-Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, Pp. 223. L'influence que les arts visuels exercent sur l'reuvre de Claude Simon est bien connue. II en va de meme de sa pratique...

...Dana Renga Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Dana Renga STAGING MEMORY AND TRAUMA IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN HOLOCAUST FILM Reading Memory in the French Documentary and the Italian Fiction Film The memory lapses of trauma are conjoined with the tendency compulsively...

...Philip Watts Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Philip Watts CAMUS AND FILM Compared with other writers of his generation, Camus had relatively little to say about the movies. Even though he was close to the actress Maria Casares, even though he began working...

... of the text. This essay explores the tensions between these two literacies, which become manifest in the film, especially in scenes where the students, who so easily relate to the novel’s characters, struggle with the more formal analysis. In a second part, inspired by the writings of Priscilla Ferguson...

... novelists and filmmakers as well as to the public. Along with works that are recognized as enduring masterpieces (Lanzmann's Shoah, David Grossman's See Under: Love, Kertesz's Fatelessness), this fascination has produced dozens, if not hundreds, of films and novels that deserve to be forgotten quickly...

...Perry Moon Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Perry Moon UNE PEINTURE MORALE: INTERTEXTUALITY IN CLOUZOT'S LES DIABOLIQUES Film critics and scholars never tire of comparing the work of HenriGeorges Clouzot with that of Alfred Hitchcock. Despite the tenacity...

... les reuvres se font toutes seules. Qu'elles revent de tuer pere et mere. (Le Testament d'Orphee) The Poet's Legacy Produced in 1945-46, Jean Cocteau's widely acclaimed film La Belle et la Bete is based on the eighteenth-century fairytale by Madame Leprince de Beaumont, however Cocteau's visual...

..., a psychiatric clinic where the poet, actor, and theater director Antonin Artaud spent the last two years of his life; and Menilmontant, Dinitri Kirsanoff's 1926 silent film starring Nadia Sibirskaia. Like the film critic Andre Bazin some twenty-five years earlier, the writer Didier Daeninckx spent time...

...Alessia Ricciardi Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Alessia Ricciardi THE ITALIAN REDEMPTION OF CINEMA: NEOREALISM FROM BAZIN TO GODARD I n 1952, the Parisian journal Films et Documents codified the "ten points of neorealism" and, with this definitive gesture...

... with the plots and characters of all six preceding volumes of Proust's novel and so a cinematic adaption either must trust that the film spectator already knows Proust's work or must incorporate elements from the whole novel into its portrayal of the last volume. Le Temps retrouve contains practically no plot...

... and the cinema has received comparatively scant attention. Over the last few years Berenice Bonhomme has effectively cornered this nascent sector of the Simon-studies market, publishing no less than four monographs, over 1,000 pages in all, on the place of film in the writer's oeuvre. In addition to a study...

... but also forgotten films, obscure film critiques, and aesthetic and political debates, all of which might seem to have very little to do with what is usually called "literature." Hence the first feature in the portrait of literary studies I am proposing under the inspiration of Phil Watts's example...

... on language, I could not help but recall Agnes Varda's autobiographical film Les Plages d'Agnes, in which she narrates her own life story by returning to specific scenes from her films. Each memory becomes a shore at which the filmmaker stops to reconstruct a significant moment of her life. Just like Varda...

... with intellectual rigor and professional dedication and, above all, with a deep sense of humanity. A specialist of twentieth-century French literature and film, Phil published on numerous subjects in this area. His first book, Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers...

... on the one hand, and to historical truth on the other. That being said, I have nothing against historical fictions. On the contrary, I really like uchronias like Fatherland (a 1992 novel by Robert Harris) and Inglourious Basterds (a 2009 film by Quentin Tarantino, discussed in this issue by Susan Suleiman...

... Some of the anti-PCF statements in Duras's film released that year, Le Camian, show that she borrowed heavily from Dionys Mascolo's ideal of communism as a unity of radical political equality and ethical respect for absolute otherness (Camian 37). Ever since leaving the Party, Duras considered herself...

... father and provides another example of the sometimes vexed relationship between memories of World War I and World War II in France after 1945. Susan Suleiman's discussion of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds assesses the stakes in the controversy that followed the release of the film while also...

... at the whole thing. I put on some Brahms trios as I begin to write, look out the window at the expanse of oak trees on the property and right away feel as if I had been placed into a film about an aging and struggling academic determined to revive his career. Were this a film, I would be divorced and would...

... potentielle, / d'une autobiographie probable, / nos parents ou nos grands-parents auraient pu s'y trouver / Ie hasard, Ie plus souvent, a fait qu'ils sont ou / ne sont pas restes en Pologne, ou se sont arretes, / en chemin en Allemagne, / en Autriche, en Angleterre ou en France" (commentaire du film Reeits...

... of conservative artists like Maillol with the Third Reich. Philip Watts, in turn, focuses his attention on the reemerging French cinema in the immediate postwar years by reading Rene Clement's two films, La Bataille du rail (1946) and Les Maudits (1947), in light of the competing 544 BOOK REVIEWS forces...