Modern American Drama on Screen
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Modern American Drama on Screen

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Modern American Drama on Screen

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From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key texts, of how Hollywood has given a second and enduring life to such classics of the American theater as Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and focuses on Broadway's most admired and popular productions. The book is ideally suited for classroom use and offers an otherwise unavailable introduction to a subject which is of great interest to students and scholars alike.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107439061
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria nel teatro

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Notes on contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Realism, censorship, and the social promise of Dead End
  6. Chapter 2 Filming Our Town (1940) or the problem of "looking at everything hard enough"
  7. Chapter 3 Screening Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller's cinema and its discontents
  8. Chapter 4 Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire
  9. Chapter 5 Come back, little scopophile: William Inge, Daniel Mann, and cinematic voyeurism
  10. Chapter 6 The Big Knife: Hollywood's "fable about moral values and success," a movie about the movies
  11. Chapter 7 Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A Raisin in the Sun
  12. Chapter 8 Double vision: the film adaptations of The Children' s Hour
  13. Chapter 9 Sidney Lumet's family epic: re-imagining Long Day's Journey into Night
  14. Chapter 10 Hollywoods Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: breaking the code
  15. Chapter 11 Sex, lies, and independent film: realism and reality in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love
  16. Chapter 12 Actor, image, action: Anthony Drazan's Hurlyburly (1998)
  17. Chapter 13 David Mamet brings film to Oleanna
  18. Chapter 14 To what end a cinematic Wit?
  19. Chapter 15 Theatrical, cinematic, and domestic epic in Tony Kushner's Angels in America
  20. Filmography
  21. Index