Marianne and the Puritan: Transformation of the Couple in French and American FilmsAs recent history continues to show, France and the United states enjoy a love-hate relationship. Expressions of admiration and dismissal of one culture by the other are usually based on superficial judgments derived from well-worn clichZs that do little more than perpetuate perceived and real differences between the two societies. Those who study these differences inevitably examine them through their own cultural peculiarities. Marianne and the Puritan attempts to draw these various analyses together by contrasting the different ways each culture constructs the romantic couple through U.S. and French popular cinema. David I. Grossvogel's broad sweeping, comparative, and interdisciplinary study is conducted with great elegance and erudition. It is a must for film studies, literary criticism, francophone studies, art history, and cultural sociology and anthropology. |
Contents
THE COMEDY OF ROMANCE IN FRANCE Under the Roofs of Paris1930 Elena and Her Men1956 A Summers Tale1996 | 15 |
THE COMEDY OF ROMANCE IN HOLLYWOOD It Happened One Night1934 Bringing Up Baby1938 Ninotchka1939 Everyone Says I Love You... | 31 |
ROMANTIC COMEDY IN FRANCE The Umbrellas of Cherbourg1964 A Man and a Woman1966A Man a Woman Twenty Years Later1968 | 53 |
ROMANTIC COMEDY IN HOLLYWOOD Love Affair1939An Affair to Remember1957 Sleepless in Seattle1993 Moonstruck 1987 | 67 |
THE COMEDY OF MARRIAGE IN FRANCE Boudu Saved From Drowning1932 Carnival in Flanders1935 The Bakers Wife1938 | 83 |
THE COMEDY OF MARRIAGE IN HOLLYWOOD The Awful Truth1937 The Philadelphia Story1949 Adams Rib1949 Down and Out in Beverly ... | 101 |
THE DRAMA OF ROMANCE IN FRANCE Madame Bovary1934 AND 1995 A Married Woman1964 Happiness1965 Too Beautiful for You1989 | 123 |
THE DRAMA OF ROMANCE IN HOLLYWOOD Penny Serenade1941 Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966 Husbands and Wives1992 Afterglow... | 145 |
THE TRAGEDY OF ROMANCE IN FRANCE The Bitch1937 Port of Shadows1938 Daybreak1939 The Soft Skin1964 | 173 |
THE TRAGEDY OF ROMANCE IN HOLLYWOOD Stella Dallas1937 Scarlet Street1945 Touch of Evil1958 The Long Night1947 | 195 |
Paris Texas1984 | 217 |
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