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Sharp Cut Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process
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Best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The ...
Best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal, collaborations with English director Joseph Losey, and an unproduced script for the remake of Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita. In this definitive study of Pinter's screenplays, Steven H. Gale compares the scripts with their sources and the resulting films, analyzes their stages of development, and shows how Pinter creates unique works of art by extr
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- Creator
- Steven H. Gale
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2003
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (539 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780813180502, 0813180503, 9780813180830, 081318083X, 9780813147956, 0813147956, 132259564X, 0813122449
- OCLC
- ocn900344454
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [462]-476) and index.
- English
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology; Introduction; The Servant; The Caretaker (The Guest); The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; The Basement (The Compartment); Accident; The Birthday Party; The Go-Between; The Homecoming; The Proust Screenplay (Remembrance of Things Past); The Last Tycoon; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Betrayal; Victory; Turtle Diary; Reunion; The Handmaid's Tale; The Comfort of Strangers; The Trial; Lolita; Bits and Pieces; The Creative/Collaborative Process; Conclusions; Appendixes; Appendix A: Quick Reference
- Appendix B: Honors and Awards for Screen writingAppendix C: Film and Television Directing; Appendix D: Movie and Television Roles Acted by Pinter; Notes; Bibliography: Works Cited; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z