Balzac Reframed The Classical and Modern Faces of Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette /

• Main Author: Tavassoli Zea, Zahra (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Adaptation Studies.

This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honoré de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. It argues that their film criticism, which gradually led to the establishme...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Balzac and the Nouvelle Vague
• 2. Rohmer: Reader and Imitator of Balzac
• 3. Poetry and Reality of the Historical Image
• 4. Balzac and Rivette: Continuity and Deflection
• 5. Modern Mythographer
• 6. Conclusion: Balzac's Multifaceted Legacy.