Cinematic Narrative, the Novel, and French Film, 1959-1969

FAIN: FT-13929-78

Judith Mayne
Ohio State University (Columbus, OH 43210-1349)

To analyze the relationship between cinematic narrative and the novel during a 10-year period of French cinema. Project will focus on the ways in which the search for new narrative forms in films (directly and indirectly affiliated with the "New Wave" of French cinema) can be understood in relation to the history, theory, and practice of the novel.