| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray -- Realism, censorship, and social promise of Dead end / by Amanda Klein -- Screening Our town (1940): or the problem of looking at everything hard enough / by David Eldridge -- Screening Death of a salesman: Arthur Miller's cinema and its discontents / by R. Barton Palmer -- Elia Kazan's A streetcar named desire / by William Robert Bray -- Come back, little scopophile: William Inge, Daniel Mann, and cinematic voyeurism / by John S. Bak -- The big knife: Hollywood's fable about moral values and success / by Christopher Ames -- Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A raisin in the sun / by Martin Halliwell -- The children's hour / by Neil Sinyard -- Screening Long day's journey into night / by Mary F. Brewer -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / by David Lavery and Nancy Mcguire Roche -- Sex, lies, and independent film: realism and reality in Sam Shepard's Fool for love / by Annette Saddik -- Actor, image, action: Anthony Ddrazan's Hurlyburly (1998) / by Laurence Raw -- David Mamet brings film to Oleanna / by Brenda Murphy -- To what end wit? / by John D. Sykes, jr -- Theatrical, cinematic, and domestic epic in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (on stage and screen) / by Tison Pugh |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography (pages 289-292) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American drama -- Film adaptations
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures and literature -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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American drama
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Film adaptations
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Motion pictures and literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations
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Film adaptations.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bray, William Robert, 1951- editor.
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Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.
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| LC no. |
2013003980 |
| ISBN |
9781107416390 |
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1107416396 |
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9780511843709 |
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0511843704 |
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9781107420373 |
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1107420377 |
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9781299842069 |
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1299842062 |
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