Research Catalog
Double takes : culture and gender in French films and their American remakes
- Title
- Double takes : culture and gender in French films and their American remakes / Carolyn A. Durham.
- Author
- Durham, Carolyn A.
- Publication
- Hanover, NH : Dartmouth : University Press of New England, c1998.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFL 99-5661 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- xi, 246 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary French culture and society
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Filmography: p. 231-235.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Disneyland comes home to Paris -- Comic strips and cultural sterotypes : Alain Resnais's I want to go home -- Jim McBride's "Breathless in L.A." : remaking Jean-Luc Godard's narrative of gender -- Three takes on motherhood, masculinity, and marriage : Serreau's original, Nimoy's remake, and Ardolino's sequel -- At the Franco-American crossroads of gender and culture : where feminism and sexism intersect -- Jean-Charles Tacchella's and Joel Schumacher's Kissing cousins : in/fidelity in family and film -- Other ways of looking : re-visions of feminism and film theory in François Truffaut's and Blake Edwards's The man who loved women -- Conclusion : contemporary French-to-American comedy or the compulsion to compare.
- Call Number
- MFL 99-5661
- ISBN
- 0874518733 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0874518741 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98003920
- OCLC
- 39169861
- Author
- Durham, Carolyn A.
- Title
- Double takes : culture and gender in French films and their American remakes / Carolyn A. Durham.
- Imprint
- Hanover, NH : Dartmouth : University Press of New England, c1998.
- Series
- Contemporary French culture and society
- Bibliography
- Filmography: p. 231-235.Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 99-5661