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Title Modern American drama in screen [electronic resource] / edited by William Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description xiv, 300 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray -- Realism, censorship, and social promise of Dead end / by Amanda Klein -- Screening Our town (1940): or the problem of looking at everything hard enough / by David Eldridge -- Screening Death of a salesman: Arthur Miller's cinema and its discontents / by R. Barton Palmer -- Elia Kazan's A streetcar named desire / by William Robert Bray -- Come back, little scopophile: William Inge, Daniel Mann, and cinematic voyeurism / by John S. Bak -- The big knife: Hollywood's fable about moral values and success / by Christopher Ames -- Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A raisin in the sun / by Martin Halliwell -- The children's hour / by Neil Sinyard -- Screening Long day's journey into night / by Mary F. Brewer -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / by David Lavery and Nancy Mcguire Roche -- Sex, lies, and independent film: realism and reality in Sam Shepard's Fool for love / by Annette Saddik -- Actor, image, action: Anthony Ddrazan's Hurlyburly (1998) / by Laurence Raw -- David Mamet brings film to Oleanna / by Brenda Murphy -- To what end wit? / by John D. Sykes, jr -- Theatrical, cinematic, and domestic epic in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (on stage and screen) / by Tison Pugh.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American drama -- Film adaptations.
Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bray, William Robert, 1951-
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781107000650 (hardback)
9781107420373 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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