François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation

by Robert Stam

One of Fran ois Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roch. The characters and events of the 1960s film were based on a real-life romantic triangle, begun in the summer of 1920, which involved Roch himself, the German-Jewish writer Franz Hessel, and his wife, the journalist Helen Grund.

Drawing on this film and others by Truffaut, Robert Stam provides the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813537258
• ISBN13: 9780813537252
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"