"Anagrams of desire" : Angela Carter's writing for radio, film, and television / Charlotte Crofts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crofts, Charlotte.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carter, Angela, 1940-1992--Dramatic works.

Carter, Angela.

Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.

Television plays, English--History and criticism.

Television plays, English.

Radio plays, English--History and criticism.

Radio plays, English.

Motion picture plays--History and criticism.

Motion picture plays.

Desire in literature.

Drama.

Physical Description:

215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.

Summary:

Angela Carter is best known for her novels, short fiction and journalism, but she also produced a substantial body of writing for media other than the printed page, including five radio plays, two film adaptations, an original television documentary and a number of unrealised scripts for stage and screen. Despite increasing academic interest in Carter's work, these dramatic writings have largely been ignored. In this book, Charlotte Crofts redresses this lack of critical attention by examining Carter's dramatic writings together for the first time (including two unpublished works), giving them a more central position in the Carter canon. Divided into three sections on radio, film and television, the book's interdisciplinary approach is underpinned by reference to exclusive interviews with the directors and producers with whom Carter collaborated, giving a unique insight into processes of adaptation and the technologies of media production. The author demonstrates how, far from being an aberration from her real vocation as a writer of fiction, Carter's writing for radio, film and television is an extension of her self-professed demythologising practice. Essential reading for those engaged in the research and teaching of Angela Carter, this book will also appeal to a wider academic and sixth-form audience and those with a general interest in literary, cultural and media studies.

Contents:

Introduction: 'Anagrams of desire': Angela Carter's writing for radio, film and television 1

1 'Aural hallucinations': radio drama 22

2 'Voices in the dark': The Company of Wolves and other radio plays 39

3 'Artificial biography': Come Unto These Yellow Sands and A Self-Made Man 65

4 'Anything that flickers': the cinema 91

5 (Re)animating the body of the text: The Company of Wolves 108

6 Looking askance: The Magic Toyshop 127

7 'The box does furnish a room': television 156

8 Acting up on the small screen: The Holy Family Album 168

'Envoi' 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-211) and index.

ISBN:

071905723X

0719057248

OCLC:

50783384