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Truman Capote A Literary Life at the Movies / Tison Pugh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pugh, Tison.
- Series:
- The South on Screen
- The south on screen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984--Film adaptations.
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984--Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- London : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Truman Capote once remarked, ""My primary thing is that I'm a prose writer. I don't think film is the greatest living thing""; nonetheless, his legacy is in many ways defined by his complex relationship with cinema, Hollywood, and celebrity itself. In Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies , Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, skillfully weaving the most relevant elements of Capote's biography- including his highly flamboyant public persona and his friendships and feuds with notable stars-with insightful critical analysis of the films, screenplays,
- Contents:
- Capote and the cinema: an overview
- Capote in the queer house of fame: stars and celebrity personas
- Scriptwriter for the stars: Capote's screen adaptations of indiscretion of An American wife, Beat the devil, and The innocents
- Holly Golightly's queer world: Blake Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Capote, crime, and capital punishment: Richard Brooks's In cold blood
- Turning a princess into a star: Capote, Lee Bouvier Radziwill, and Laura
- Capote for the holidays: A Christmas memory (and trilogy), The thanksgiving visitor, and One Christmas
- Capote's southern childhoods: Other voices, other rooms, The grass harp, and Children on their birthdays
- Capote's unfinished business: abandoned and unproduced projects
- Playing Capote: tru, Capote, infamous, and other parodic and iconic portrayals
- Notes
- Cinema Capoteana.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780820346694
- 0820346691
- 9780820347097
- 0820347094
- OCLC:
- 876301992
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