TY - BOOK ID - 77890179 TI - François Truffaut and friends : modernism, sexuality, and film adaptation PY - 2006 SN - 1282133659 9786613806239 0813540992 9780813540993 0813537258 9780813537252 9781282133655 6613806234 081353724X 9780813537245 PB - New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University press, DB - UniCat KW - Jules et Jim (Motion picture). KW - Roche, Henri Pierre, -- 1879-1959. -- Jules et Jim. KW - Truffaut, Francois -- History and criticism. KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - Film KW - Roché, Henri Pierre, KW - Truffaut, François KW - History and criticism. KW - Deux Anglaises et le continent (Motion picture). KW - History and criticism KW - Jules et Jim (Motion picture) KW - Deux Anglaises et le continent (Motion picture) KW - Truffaut, François - History and criticism KW - Roché, Henri Pierre, - 1879-1959. - Jules et Jim KW - Roché, Henri Pierre, - 1879-1959. - Deux Anglaises et le continent UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890179 AB - One of Francois Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roche. The characters and events of the 1960s film were based on a real-life romantic triangle, begun in the summer of 1920, which involved Roche himself, the German-Jewish writer Franz Hessel, and his wife, the journalist Helen Grund. Drawing on this film and others by Truffaut, Robert Stam provides the first in-depth examination of the multifaceted relationship between Truffaut and Roche. In the process, he provides a unique lens through which to understand how adaptation works - from history to novel, and ultimately to film - and how each form of expression is inflected by the period in which it is created. Truffaut's adaptation of Roche's work, Stam suggests, demonstrates how reworkings can be much more than simply copies of their originals; rather, they can become an immensely creative enterprise - a form of writing in itself. The book also moves beyond Truffaut's film and the menage-a-trois involving Roche, Hessel, and Grund to explore the intertwined lives and works of other famous artists and intellectuals, including Marcel Duchamp, Walter Benjamin, and Charlotte Wolff. Tracing the tangled webs that linked these individuals' lives, Stam opens the door to an erotic/writerly territory where the complex interplay of various artistic sensibilities - all revolving around the same nucleus of feelings and events - vividly comes alive. ER -