Proust at the Movies (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Proust and the cinema; Cinema as grand narrative: Visconti’s and Losey’s planned adaptations of A la recherche du temps perdu; Love demystified: Volker SchlA¶ndorff’s Un Amour de Swann; Surrealist Proust: Raoul Ruiz’s Le Temps retrouve; Filming obsession: Chantal Akerman’s La Captive; Beyond adaptation: Fabio Carpi’s Quartetto Basileus and Le Intermittenze del cuore; The modernist legacy; Conclusion; Filmography and bibliography; Index.