"Supple and sophisticated, FranÇois Truffaut and Friends tells an affecting story-several stories-and does so with verve."
- Dudley Andrew (professor of comparative literature and film studies, Yale University) "An original and fascinating study that spins out from Truffaut's Jules and Jim to explore the world of literature, film, and avant-garde sexuality to which it is related. Stam has many interesting things to say about the theory of adaptation, the sexual politics of modernist bohemia, and the lives of individual artists."
- James Naremore (author of More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts) "Robert Stam has written a fascinating study of transposition, illuminating aspects of biography, literature and cinema. It won't be possible to watch Jules and Jim again without thinking of the complex layers of lived and imagined life that feed into Truffaut's classic film."
- Annette Insdorf (author of François Truffaut) "We discover-in Robert Stam's sexy, startling, and infinitely entangled plot-that hyperbolic infidelity may indeed inspire felicitous creativity, which makes this book essential reading not only for all those impassioned by modernist autobiography and New Wave cinema, but even more important in our times, for those who wish to celebrate the joyful wisdom of erotic values."
- Allen S. Weiss (author of Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon) "Supple and sophisticated, FranÇois Truffaut and Friends tells an affecting story-several stories-and does so with verve."
- Dudley Andrew (professor of comparative literature and film studies, Yale University) "An original and fascinating study that spins out from Truffaut's Jules and Jim to explore the world of literature, film, and avant-garde sexuality to which it is related. Stam has many interesting things to say about the theory of adaptation, the sexual politics of modernist bohemia, and the lives of individual artists."
- James Naremore (author of More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts) "Robert Stam has written a fascinating study of transposition, illuminating aspects of biography, literature and cinema. It won't be possible to watch Jules and Jim again without thinking of the complex layers of lived and imagined life that feed into Truffaut's classic film."
- Annette Insdorf (author of François Truffaut) "We discover-in Robert Stam's sexy, startling, and infinitely entangled plot-that hyperbolic infidelity may indeed inspire felicitous creativity, which makes this book essential reading not only for all those impassioned by modernist autobiography and New Wave cinema, but even more important in our times, for those who wish to celebrate the joyful wisdom of erotic values."
- Allen S. Weiss (author of Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon)
