Reviews for Zola and Film: Essays in the Art of Adaptation

The average rating for Zola and Film: Essays in the Art of Adaptation based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-12-16 00:00:00 Chad Rackel An admirable academic work which regrettably borrows the freewheeling, free-flowing prose style of its subject. The facts are here, just spread out diffusely, again rather like the author at the heart of the study. A book really only for Montaigne freaks and/or those writing a thesis on him. Nearly every other reader, including this one, will limp to the finish line, a mere 180 pages, egregious footnotes included.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-13 00:00:00 Geri Fridy "Documents" was the great writer and the thinker of the Underworld Georges Bataille's great journal that lasted for a year or so. Put together in the late 20's, the journal was probably the first time that a group of artists thought about Africian Tribal art or old civilizations and what it meant to Contemporary Art and practices. With Bataille you got the feeling that he had sort of X-Ray eyes at looking at contemporary culture and had an understanding what lurks underneath that skin. Strongly erotic impulses are measured along with the 'waste' of previous cultures and civilizations. A beautifully (if one can call it that) document of a time when artists explored their regions and matched it up with something from the past.