Modern American Drama on Screen

✍ Scribed by William Robert Bray; R. Barton Palmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key texts, of how Hollywood has given a second and enduring life to such classics of the American theater as Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and focuses on Broadway's most admired and popular productions. The book is ideally suited for classroom use and offers an otherwise unavailable introduction to a subject which is of great interest to students and scholars alike.

✦ Subjects

American drama -- Film adaptations. ; Film adaptations -- History and criticism. ; Motion pictures and literature -- United States.; LIT013000; NON000000; PER004030

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