Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University

Introduction: screening French literature - Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
2 The spectacle of Monte Cristo - Jennifer L. Jenkins
3 Adultery and adulteration in film versions of Flaubert's Madame Bovary - Colin Davis
4 For the first time on screen together: Madame Bovary and Les Misérables in 1934 - Dudley Andrew
5 The Americanization of Victor Hugo: Darryl F. Zanuck's Les Misérables (1935) - Guerric DeBona
6 From heterotopia to metatopia: staging Carmen's death - Phil Powrie
7 From the Recherche on film toward a Proustian cinema - Steven Ungar
8 Otto Preminger's Bonjour, Tristesse: a tale of three women, if not more - R. Barton Palmer
9 Adapting Pagnol and Provence - Jeremy Strong
10 Maigret on screen: stardom and literary adaptation - Ginette Vincendeau
11 The making and remaking of Thérèse Desqueyroux: one novel, two films - Susan Hayward
12 Elle (2016), rape, and adaptation - Homer B. Pettey
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