History of French Literature on Film

French novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert''s Madame Bovary directed by Sophie Barthes, The History of French Literature on Film explores the key films, directors, and movements t...