Modern American drama on screen / / edited by William Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 791.430973
• Soggetto topico: American drama; Film adaptations - History and criticism; Motion pictures and literature - United States
• Persona (resp. second.): BrayWilliam Robert <1951->; PalmerR. Barton <1946->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Modern American drama on screen
• ISBN: 1-139-89200-2; 1-107-42384-8; 1-316-61968-0; 1-107-42179-9; 0-511-84370-4; 1-107-41639-6; 1-107-41912-3; 1-107-42037-7; 1-107-41777-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790403003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II