Proust at the Movies is the first study in English to consider the rich interconnections between Proust and the cinema and to examine the various cinematic responses to his work attempted so far: Luchino Visconti and Joseph Losey's projects of filming the whole of A la recherche du temps perdu in the 1970s, Volker Schlöndorff's Un Amour de Swann (1984), Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps retrouvé (1999), Chantal Akerman's La Captive (2000), and Fabio Carpi's Quartetto Basileus (1982) and Le Intermittenze del cuore (2004).

Contents: Introduction; Proust and the cinema; Cinema as grand narrative: Visconti's and Losey's planned adaptations of A la recherche du temps perdu; Love demystified: Volker Schlöndorff's Un Amour de Swann; Surrealist Proust: Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps retrouvé; Filming obsession: Chantal Akerman's La Captive; Beyond adaptation: Fabio Carpi's Quartetto Basileus and Le Intermittenze del cuore; The modernist legacy; Conclusion; Filmography and bibliography; Index.

Martine Beugnet is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Marginalité, sexualité, contrÿle: cinéma français contemporain (2000) and Claire Denis (2004), as well as numerous articles on contemporary French cinema. Marion Schmid is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, UK. A specialist on Proust, she is the author of Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust (1998) and of numerous articles and essays on European nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture.