THE CLASH BETWEEN THEATER AND FILM: Germaine Dulac, André Bazin and La Souriante Madame Beudet

This essay examines approaches to theater-to-film adaptation in the 1920s by focusing on Germaine Dulac's writings and films, in particular La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923). It analyzes the systematic nature of Dulac's translation of Denys Amiel's and André Obey's homonymous pla...

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