Modern American Drama on Screen
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Modern American Drama on Screen

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eBook - PDF

Modern American Drama on Screen

About this book

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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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