Mythical returns: televising Therese Raquin

Griffiths, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3335-7092 2011. Mythical returns: televising Therese Raquin. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 39 (3-4) , pp. 285-295. 10.1353/ncf.2011.0016

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Abstract

Television is not an obvious home for Zola's novels. Its spatially-restrained aesthetic crops Zola's sweeping vistas and the repetitions inherent in its serial structures have led some to query its artistic endeavour. However, France 3's La Liberté de Marie (2002), an adaptation of Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1867), written and directed by Caroline Huppert, counters both assumptions. It underlines the compatibility between Thérèse Raquin and the medium of television in spatial terms. The adaptation does not return to the detail of Zola's text, but, through its exploration of myth, it echoes Zola's belief that originality lies in the innovative re-telling of an age-old story in a new context.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Publisher:	University of Nebraska Press
ISSN:	0146-7891
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2022 09:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/22174

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