{"product_id":"francois-truffaut-and-friends-modernism-sexuality-and-film-adaptation-paperback","title":"François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Stam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of François Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roch. The characters and events of the 1960s film were based on a real-life romantic triangle, begun in the summer of 1920, which involved Roch himself, the German-Jewish writer Franz Hessel, and his wife, the journalist Helen Grund. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on this film and others by Truffaut, Robert Stam provides the first in-depth examination of the multifaceted relationship between Truffaut and Roch. In the process, he provides a unique lens through which to understand how adaptation works-from history to novel, and ultimately to film-and how each form of expression is inflected by the period in which it is created. Truffaut's adaptation of Roch's work, Stam suggests, demonstrates how reworkings can be much more than simply copies of their originals; rather, they can become an immensely creative enterprise-a form of writing in itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book also moves beyond Truffaut's film and the mnage--trois involving Roch, Hessel, and Grund to explore the intertwined lives and work of other famous artists and intellectuals, including Marcel Duchamp, Walter Benjamin, and Charlotte Wolff. Tracing the tangled webs that linked these individuals' lives, Stam opens the door to an erotic\/writerly territory where the complex interplay of various artistic sensibilities-all mulling over the same nucleus of feelings and events-vividly comes alive.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Stam is University Professor at New York University, where he teaches a course on the French New Wave. He has published widely on French and comparative literature, film, and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.22 x 6.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737587552319,"sku":"9780813537252","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c8a3f96ec93de0c2102088ee881f99b8.webp?v=1765150429","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/francois-truffaut-and-friends-modernism-sexuality-and-film-adaptation-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}