TY - BOOK ID - 101248746 TI - Emile Zola and the artistry of adaptation PY - 2017 SN - 1351194135 1351194151 1351194143 1906540276 9781351194136 9781906540272 PB - Abingdon, Oxon DB - UniCat KW - French literature KW - Film adaptations KW - History and criticism. KW - Zola, Émile, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Cholla, KW - Emilisōlā, KW - Jolla, KW - Sōlā, Emili, KW - Tso-la, KW - Tso, La, KW - Zola, KW - Zola, Emil, KW - Zola, Émile Édouard Charles Antoine, KW - Zola, Emilio, KW - Zolah, Emil, KW - Zoli︠a︡, Ėmilʹ, KW - Zuo, La, KW - Zuola, KW - Золя, Эмиль, KW - זאלא, עמיל KW - זאלא, עמיל, KW - זאליא, ע. KW - זאליא, עמיל KW - זולא, אמיל, KW - זולא, עמיל KW - זולה, אמיל KW - זולה, אמיל, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101248746 AB - "Filmmakers have drawn inspiration from the p. of Emile Zola from the earliest days of cinema. The ever-growing number of adaptations they have produced spans eras, genres, languages, and styles. In spite of the diversity of these approaches, numerous critics regard them as inferior copies of a superior textual original. But key novels by Zola resist this critical approach to adaptation. Both at the level of characterization and in terms of their own textual inheritance, they question the very possibility of origin, be it personal or textual. In the light of this questioning, the cinematic versions created from Zolas texts merit critical re-evaluation. Far from being facile copies of the nineteenth-century novelists works, these films assess their own status as adaptations, playing with both notions of artistic creation and their own artistic act. Kate Griffiths is a lecturer in French at Swansea University." ER -