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Modern British drama on screen /
This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insights into the mutually profitable relationship between the newest performance medium and the most ancient. With each chapter written by an expert in the fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "That filth from which the glamour is not even yet departed" : adapting Journey's end / Lawrence Napper
- Playful banter in Shaw's Pygmalion / Douglas McFarland
- Knowing your place : David Lean's film adaptation of Noël Coward's This happy breed / Neil Sinyard
- The Browning version revisited / Marcia Landy
- Screening for serious people a trivial comedy : Wilde's The importance of being earnest / Tom Ryall
- The British new wave begins : Richardson's Look back in anger / Steve Nicholson
- The shift from stage to screen : space, performance, and language in The knack ... and how to get it / Christine Geraghty
- See-thru desire and the dream of gay marriage : Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane on stage and screen / James Campbell
- Sleuth on screen : adapting masculinities / Monika Pietrzak-Franger
- Education Rita and the Pygmalion effect : gender, class, and adaptation anxiety / Cynthia Lucia
- The madness of Susan Traherne : adapting David Hare's Plenty / Tiffany Gilbert
- "A Tom Stoppard film" : agency and adaptation in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / Elizabeth Rivlin
- 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.