Truman Capote : a literary life at the movies /

Pugh, Tison,

Truman Capote : a literary life at the movies / Tison Pugh. - Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - The south on screen .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 --Criticism and interpretation.
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 --Film adaptations.


Electronic Books.

PS3505 / .T786 2014