Modern American drama in screen / edited by William Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bray, William Robert, 1951- editor.

Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--Film adaptations.

American drama.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Motion pictures and literature--United States.

Motion pictures and literature.

United States.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107000650

1107000653

OCLC:

835101687