Double takes : culture and gender in French films and their American remakes /
Durham, Carolyn A.
Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth : University Press of New England,
c1998.
Filmography: p. 231-235.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.
Introduction : Disneyland comes home to Paris -- Comic strips and cultural sterotypes : Alain Resnais's I want to go home -- Jim McBride's "Breathless in L.A." : remaking Jean-Luc Godard's narrative of gender -- Three takes on motherhood, masculinity, and marriage : Serreau's original, Nimoy's remake, and Ardolino's sequel -- At the Franco-American crossroads of gender and culture : where feminism and sexism intersect -- Jean-Charles Tacchella's and Joel Schumacher's Kissing cousins : in/fidelity in family and film -- Other ways of looking : re-visions of feminism and film theory in François Truffaut's and Blake Edwards's The man who loved women -- Conclusion : contemporary French-to-American comedy or the compulsion to compare.
Motion picture remakes.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures
Sex role in motion pictures.