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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 301–316.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Leigh Mercer Abstract This essay examines the display of technological objects, consumer goods, and other materials within the earliest Spanish realist cinema, as well as the manipulation of things in pioneering fantasy films, to reveal how Spanish filmmakers projected the modernity of Spain...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 532–535.
Published: 01 November 2007
... 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...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 461–482.
Published: 01 May 2006
...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...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 133–142.
Published: 01 January 2014
...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...
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in Under the Cobblestones, Prehistory!: Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, and the Afterlife of May ’68
> Romanic Review
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. Film still from Les Mains négatives (dir. Marguerite Duras) of the first traveling shot as the car departs from the Place de la République.
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in Under the Cobblestones, Prehistory!: Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, and the Afterlife of May ’68
> Romanic Review
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Film still from Les Mains négatives (dir. Marguerite Duras) of the commercial arcades at the intersection of Rivoli Street and Castiglione Street, with the Colonne Vendôme in the background.
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 September 2021
... 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...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 September 2023
... plazas and roamed city avenues to document a popular uprising that marked a clear end to Portugal’s Fascist project. In this impetus to record radical change, film and its associated technologies promised not only to document, capture, and freeze history in the making but also to make it material...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and flavorful). Based on a play by Jacinto Benavente (1925), and repurposed in the era of the Popular Front, the film attempts to ease class conflict by celebrating the working life and asserting interclass harmony, thereby appealing to viewers on both the left and right. But despite its bourgeois perspective...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 69–86.
Published: 01 January 2014
... 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...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 255–272.
Published: 01 January 2012
...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...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 May 2002
... toujours son propre portrait. (Le Testament d'Orphee) Bien sur que 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...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 37–51.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., 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...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 483–500.
Published: 01 May 2006
...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...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 467–482.
Published: 01 May 2010
... 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...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 290–292.
Published: 01 January 2011
... 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...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 111–121.
Published: 01 January 2014
... 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...
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Undoing Odysseus’s Pact: Marginal Faces and Voices in the Narratives of Assia Djebar and Agnès Varda
Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2015
... 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...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 3–5.
Published: 01 January 2014
... 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...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 87–90.
Published: 01 January 2014
... 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...
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