Titel
Classical Cinema: Transmediating La Princesse de Clèves
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Abstract
Since its first publication in 1678, La Princesse de Clèves has inspired an exceptionally rich corpus of criticism, numerous literary variations and, over the last decades, several cinematographic adaptations: Jean Delannoy’s historicizing, fairytale-izing La Princesse de Clèves (1961); Manoel de Oliveira’s A Carta/La Lettre (1999), an eminently textualized film, accentuating the plot’s religious dimension; Andrzej Żuławski’s La Fidélité (2000), problematizing also adaptational ‘fidelity’ between esprit and lettre; Christophe Honoré’s La Belle Personne (2008), a ‘proposition de lecture’ of Lafayette’s novel in the context of the notorious Sarkozy affair; finally, Régis Sauder’s documentary Nous, princesses de Clèves (2011), restaging Lafayette’s royal court in northern Marseille’s ZEP-Lycée Diderot and, thus, raising controversial topics concerning the transmission of a common cultural heritage, the ambivalences of ‘high culture’ between symbolic violence and emancipatory potential. This article proposes a comparative analysis of these five filmic Princesses, with a particular focus on metamedial self-reflexivity, gender/queer as well as postcolonial and intercultural perspectives.
Stichwort
LafayetteLa Princesse de Clèvescinematographic adaptationJean DelannoyManoel de OliveiraAndrzej ŻuławskiChristophe HonoréRégis Sauder
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
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Titel
Romance Studies
Band
35
Ausgabe
4
Seitenanfang
209
Seitenende
225
Publication
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
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