Screen LibraryModern British drama on screen /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Includes filmography. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107001015 (cloth) : 1107001013 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PN1997 |
| CLC: |
J951.2-171.2 J951.2-156.1 |
| Call Number: | J951.2-156.1/M689 |
| Contents: | "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. |