NOVELIZATION: From Film to Novel
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IGNORANCE AND MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE GENRE
DANGEROUS SIMPLIFICATIONS
BEYOND STUDIES OF ADAPTATION
AN INITIAL RESEARCH OUTLINE
PART I: On the Genre of Novelization
WHY THERE IS (AS YET) NO HISTORY OF NOVELIZATION
FROM CATALOGUE DESCRIPTIONS TO PROTONOVELIZATIONS
THE GOLDEN AGE OF “FILM-NOVELS” AND “RETOLD FILMS”
ALONGSIDE THE FILM-NOVEL
NOVELIZATION IN THE AGE OF THE “CAMÉRA-STYLO” AND “AUTEUR THEORY”
POSTMODERN DIVERSITIES
CHAPTER 2: Variations on a Definition
THE TEXT COUNTERATTACKS
A FALSELY INDEPENDENT GENRE
NOVELIZATION AS ANTIADAPTATION
NOVELIZATION AS ANTIREMEDIATION
NOVELIZATION AND LACK OF VISUALITY
CHAPTER 3: Illustrations: A Rhetorical Tool
WEAK AND STRONG IMAGES
“MANAGING” RHETORICAL EFFECTS
THE IMAGE’S TRAJECTORY
PART II: A Sample of Case Studies
BIRTH OF A SERIES
A LANDMARK BOOK FOR A CULT FILM
JOAN OF ARC IN THE TEXT, BUT IN PLURAL FORM
READING BOST
CHAPTER 5: Jean-Claude Carrière, Tati’s Novelizer
JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE IN THE HISTORY OF NOVELIZATION
A MISLEADING SURFACE
GENUINE WRITING
A CASE OF TWISTS AND TURNS
REWRITING, CREATION, DISPLACEMENT
NOVELIZATION IN THE TEXT
CHAPTER 7: Out of Breath: A Novelized Remake Translated Back into French
BREATHLESS, A NOVEL BY LEONORE FLEISCHER
À BOUT DE SOUFFLE MADE IN USA
A FRENCH EXCEPTION?
A FEW CONTEMPORARY TRENDS
NEW SCREENWRITING APPROACHES
CHAPTER 9: Olivier Smolders and the Self-Novelization of Nuit noire: The Possible and the Preferable
ADAPTIVE AND LITERARY CINEMA
FROM ANTINOVELIZATION TO REINVENTING THE GENRE
THE DOCUMENT AS NARRATIVE TOOL
NEITHER LONG FORM NOR SHORT: THE COLLECTION
A “VISUAL” NOVELIZATION?
CODA: RETURN TO SURREALISM?
PART III: The Poem-Novelization
PRESENCE AND PERSISTENCE OF POETRY
THE IMAGE AS AN OBJECT OF DESIRE OR AN OBJECT OF FEAR
WHY THE POEM-NOVELIZATION?
THE POEM-NOVELIZATION, AN ANTINOVELIZATION?
CHAPTER 11: Jean-Luc Godard 1, 2, Infinity . . .
NEW WAVE “AUTEURS”
“PHRASES” [SENTENCES], AN UNCLASSIFIABLE NOVELIZATION
PART IV: From Novelization to Adaptation
CHAPTER 12: New Readings of the Genre
BATCAT STORIES
FINAL POST: BERGMAN BY BERGMAN
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX I: Éditions Gallimard: “Le Cinéma Romanesque” series
Translations (copublished with Gérard & Cie, Verviers)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
THEORY AND INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE: James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, and Katra Byram, Series Editors