French Literature and Film

FL 214

Professor Christine Renaudin
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Thursdays 5:00-8:40pm
Darwin 102

Office: Stevenson 3016C
Telephone: 707.664.3159
Fax: 707.664.2363
E-mail: christine.renaudin@sonoma.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm to 3:00pm, or by appointment.

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RESOURCES

On reserve at the library

Chrétien de Troyes

Perceval, the Story of the Grail

PQ1445.P2 E5 1986

Eric Rohmer

Perceval le Gallois

VHS 4451

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Lover

DVD 356

Marguerite Duras

The Lover

PQ2607.U8245 A62613 1985

Jean Cocteau

Beauty and the Beast

DVD 52

Walt Disney

Beauty and the Beast

VHS 5297

Choderlos de Laclos

Dangerous Liaisons

PQ1993.L22 L513 1961

Stephen Frears

Dangerous Liaisons

VHS 1702

Roger Vadim

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

VHS 2374

Milos Forman

Valmont

DVD 1195

Josée Dayan

Les Liaisons dangereuses

On order

Roger Kumble

Cruel Intentions

On order

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

PQ2246 .M2 D4

Rodney Bennett

Madame Bovary

VHS 4698

Claude Chabrol

Madame Bovary

DVD 1197

Vincente Minnelli

Madame Bovary

VHS 6088

Jean Renoir

Madame Bovary

VHS 758

Marguerite Duras

Hiroshima, mon Amour

PN1997 .D925

Alain Resnais

Hiroshima, mon Amour

DVD 787

Lucien Godard

Prénom Carmen

Carlos Saura

Carmen

Otto Preminger

Carmen Jones

Peter Brook

Moderato Cantabile

Marguerite Duras

Moderato Cantabile

On line

Chrétien de Troyes

Biographical elements:
http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/arthuriana2z/c.htm#CHRE
On Chrétien’s place in the Arthurian lore: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/legendliterature1.html
Timeless myths: Perceval’s tradition:
http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/quest1.html
On the Holy Grail:
http://www.britannia.com/history/arthur/grail.html

Eric Rohmer

Details and comments about the film, Perceval le Gallois:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078073/
Profile, by Tamara Trcz:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/rohmer.html
Interview with Eric Rohmer, by Aurélien Ferenzi:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/16/rohmer.html

Jean Cocteau

Profile by Richard Misek:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/cocteau.html
Article by Kin Humphreville:
http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/C/La_Belle_et_la_Bete_780.html
On La Princesse de Clèves:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054208/
On La Belle et la Bête:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/
http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/cinema/releases/cocteau/belle.html

Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont

http://www.oberlin.edu/english/syllabi/spring01/Gorfain/369/BeBeast.html

Choderlos de Laclos

The Literary Encyclopedia:
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2588
Brigitte Humbert's dissertation: Du roman epistolaire au film: Le transfert du role de la lettre dans les adaptations des 'Liaisons Dangereuses':
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9538633/

Stephen Frears

Washington Post article by Hal Hinson on Frears's Dangerous Liaisons:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/dangerousliaisonsrhinson_a0a8d4.htm

Roger Vadim

Biography an filmography:
http://www.answers.com/topic/roger-vadim
New York Times article by Caryn James:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E7DF153AF935A15752C1A96F948260&sec=&pagewanted=print
On Vadim's Liaisons dangereuses:
http://www.mondo-digital.com/barbarella.html
The Decorous Libertine, by Charles Taylor:
http://www.mondo-digital.com/barbarella.html

Milos Forman

New York Times article by Janet Maslin:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DB173DF934A25752C1A96F948260
Details and review of Valmont:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098575/
Review of Valmont by Edwin Jahiel:
http://www.prairienet.org/ejahiel/valmont.htm

Roger Kumble

When Pop Culture Meets High Literature. The case of Cruel Intentions and the epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Betty Kaklamanidou:
http://www.offscreen.com/biblio/essays/cruel_intentions/

Flaubert

Flaubert: Biography in The Literature Network.
http://www.online-literature.com/gustave-flaubert/
Reviews.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/flaubert/mbovary.htm
Madame Bovary.
http://www.madamebovary.com/default.htm

Vincente Minnelli

"Images of Magic and Transformation," by Joe McElhaney.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/minnelli.html
Madame Bovary
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041615/

Claude Chabrol

Senses of Cinema.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/chabrol.html
Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1042062-madame_bovary/

Alain Resnais

Strictly Film School.
http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/resnais.html
The Stream of Consciousness in the Films of Alain Resnais, by HAIM CALLEV.
http://www.tau.ac.il/~haim/s-chaptr.htm
Interview.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_11_29/ai_57590217

Marguerite Duras

Label France.
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/LETTRES/DURAS/duras.html
Women's History.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/ucbio_duras_margaret.htm

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Interview. My Village.com.
http://www.myvillage.com/pages/celebs-jean-jacques-annaud.htm
Site Jean-Jacques Annaud.
http://www.jjannaud.com/

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