Modern British Drama on Screen

Modern British Drama on Screen

Bray, Robert; Bray, William Robert; Palmer, R. Barton

Cambridge University Press

12/2013

306

Dura

Inglês

9781107001015

15 a 20 dias

This is the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. The volume focuses on key playwrights of the period, including George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maugham, Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward and John Osborne and key plays from Pygmalion to The Madness of George III.
Introduction R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray; 1. 'That filth from which the glamour is not even yet departed': adapting Journey's End Lawrence Napper; 2. Playful banter in Shaw's Pygmalion Douglas McFarland; 3. Knowing your place: David Lean's film adaptation of Noel Coward's This Happy Breed Neil Sinyard; 4. The Browning Version revisited Marcia Landy; 5. Screening for serious people a trivial comedy: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Tom Ryall; 6. The British New Wave begins: Richardson's Look Back in Anger Steve Nicholson; 7. The shift from stage to screen: space, performance, and language in The Knack ... and How to Get It Christine Geraghty; 8. See-thru desire and the dream of gay marriage: Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane on stage and screen James Campbell; 9. Sleuth on screen: adapting masculinities Monika Pietrzak-Franger; 10. Educating Rita and the Pygmalion effect: gender, class, and adaptation anxiety Cynthia Lucia; 11. The madness of Susan Traherne: adapting Hare's Plenty Tiffany Gilbert; 12. 'A Tom Stoppard film': agency and adaptation in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Elizabeth Rivlin; 13. Rewriting history: Alan Bennett's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner on the adaptations of The Madness of George III and The History Boys Joseph H. O'Mealy; Filmography.
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