Marianne and the Puritan: Transformation of the Couple in French and American Films [Hardcover]

As recent history continues to show, France and the United states enjoy a love-hate relationship. Expressions of admiration and dismissal of one culture by the other are usually based on superficial judgments derived from well-worn clich?s that do little more than perpetuate perceived and real differences between the two societies. Those who study these differences inevitably examine them through their own cultural peculiarities.Marianne and the Puritanattempts to draw these various analyses together by contrasting the different ways each culture constructs the romantic couple through U.S. and French popular cinema. David I. Grossvogel's broad sweeping, comparative, and interdisciplinary study is conducted with great elegance and erudition. It is a must for film studies, literary criticism, francophone studies, art history, and cultural sociology and anthropology.David I. Grossvogelis the Goldwin Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Cornell University.

Chapter 1 The Comedy of Romance in France
Chapter 2 The Comedy of Romance in Hollywood
Chapter 3 Romantic Comedy in France
Chapter 4 Romantic Comedy in Hollywood
Chapter 5 France
Chapter 6 Hollywood
Chapter 7 The Drama of Romance in France
Chapter 8 The Drama of Romance in Hollywood
Chapter 9 The Tragedy of Romance in France
Chapter 10 The Tragedy of Romance in Hollywood
Chapter 11 EpilogueParis Texas(1984)