Modern American drama in screen /edited by William Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer.
Modern American drama in screen /edited by William Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Realism, censorship, and social promise of Dead end / Screening Our town (1940): or the problem of looking at everything hard enough / Screening Death of a salesman: Arthur Miller's cinema and its discontents / Elia Kazan's A streetcar named desire / Come back, little scopophile: William Inge, Daniel Mann, and cinematic voyeurism / The big knife: Hollywood's fable about moral values and success / Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A raisin in the sun / The children's hour / Screening Long day's journey into night / Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / Sex, lies, and independent film: realism and reality in Sam Shepard's Fool for love / Actor, image, action: Anthony Ddrazan's Hurlyburly (1998) / David Mamet brings film to Oleanna / To what end wit? / Theatrical, cinematic, and domestic epic in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (on stage and screen) / by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray -- by Amanda Klein -- by David Eldridge -- by R. Barton Palmer -- by William Robert Bray -- by John S. Bak -- by Christopher Ames -- by Martin Halliwell -- by Neil Sinyard -- by Mary F. Brewer -- by David Lavery and Nancy Mcguire Roche -- by Annette Saddik -- by Laurence Raw -- by Brenda Murphy -- by John D. Sykes, jr -- by Tison Pugh.
9781107416390
American drama--Film adaptations.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature--United States.
Electronic Books.
PS338 / .M634 2013
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Realism, censorship, and social promise of Dead end / Screening Our town (1940): or the problem of looking at everything hard enough / Screening Death of a salesman: Arthur Miller's cinema and its discontents / Elia Kazan's A streetcar named desire / Come back, little scopophile: William Inge, Daniel Mann, and cinematic voyeurism / The big knife: Hollywood's fable about moral values and success / Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A raisin in the sun / The children's hour / Screening Long day's journey into night / Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / Sex, lies, and independent film: realism and reality in Sam Shepard's Fool for love / Actor, image, action: Anthony Ddrazan's Hurlyburly (1998) / David Mamet brings film to Oleanna / To what end wit? / Theatrical, cinematic, and domestic epic in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (on stage and screen) / by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray -- by Amanda Klein -- by David Eldridge -- by R. Barton Palmer -- by William Robert Bray -- by John S. Bak -- by Christopher Ames -- by Martin Halliwell -- by Neil Sinyard -- by Mary F. Brewer -- by David Lavery and Nancy Mcguire Roche -- by Annette Saddik -- by Laurence Raw -- by Brenda Murphy -- by John D. Sykes, jr -- by Tison Pugh.
9781107416390
American drama--Film adaptations.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature--United States.
Electronic Books.
PS338 / .M634 2013