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Quand la littérature fait son cinéma – When cinema puts on a literary show

Quand la littérature fait son cinéma – When cinema puts on a literary show

Publié le par Vincent Ferré (Source : Marie-Line Brunet)

This panel will be held at 67th annual RMMLA convention from October 10-12, 2013 at the Hilton Hotel in Vancouver, WASHINGTON.

Quand la littérature fait son cinéma – When cinema puts on a literary show

Since the early ages of cinema, the question of its influence on literature has raised many concerns amongst literary critics and purists. However, it remains a vague concept and it is with great difficulty that scholars have been able to provide concrete examples of this phenomenon.

This special topic session seeks to precisely examine how cinema has concretely influenced French and Francophone contemporary prose fiction because as Jean-Luc Godard once said “la littérature c’est souvent du cinéma” (“literature is often cinema”).


Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- transposition of cinematic techniques in prose fiction
- cinema as a literary topos
- literary “soundtrack”
- reverse adaption (from film to prose fiction)

Please, submit your abstract for a 15- to 20-minute presentation (in English or French) with title and contact information to Marie-Line Brunet mbrunet@indiana.edu, by March 1, 2013.