Truman Capote : a literary life at the movies / Tison Pugh.

Author/creator Pugh, Tison author.
Format Book
PublicationAthens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
Descriptionxii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe South on screen
South on screen. ^A1193116
Contents Capote and the cinema: an overview -- Capote in the queer house of fame: stars and celebrity personas -- Scriptwriter for the stars: Capote's screen adaptations of indiscretion of An American wife, Beat the devil, and The innocents -- Holly Golightly's queer world: Blake Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Capote, crime, and capital punishment: Richard Brooks's In cold blood -- Turning a princess into a star: Capote, Lee Bouvier Radziwill, and Laura -- Capote for the holidays: A Christmas memory (and trilogy), The thanksgiving visitor, and One Christmas -- Capote's southern childhoods: Other voices, other rooms, The grass harp, and Children on their birthdays -- Capote's unfinished business: abandoned and unproduced projects -- Playing Capote: tru, Capote, infamous, and other parodic and iconic portrayals -- Notes -- Cinema Capoteana.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013037744
ISBN9780820346687 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0820346683 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780820346694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0820346691 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3505 .A59 Z835 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold