Hollywood on stage : playwrights evaluate the culture industry / edited by Kimball King.
| Other author | King, Kimball. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Garland Pub., 1997. |
| Description | xix, 233 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2057. Studies in modern drama ; v. 9 Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2057. ^A654521 Garland reference library of the humanities. Studies in modern drama ; v. 9. ^A413898 |
| Contents | "Engaged in the art of photodrama" : Merton of the movies / William Hutchings -- What makes Sammy run? S.N. Behrman and the fugitive kind / Robert F. Gross -- Hollywood as moral landscape : Clifford Odets' The big knife / Albert Wertheim -- Hollywood on the contemporary stage: image, phallic "players," and the culture industry / Stephen Watt -- Staging Hollywood, selling out / Marcia Blumberg -- Sanctity, seduction or settling scores against the swine in Speed-the-plow? / Leslie Kane -- So dis is Hollywood : Mamet in Hell / Toby Silverman Zinman -- Myth of Narcissus : Shepard's True west and Mamet's Speed-the-plow / Katherine H. Burkman -- Alienation effects and exteriorized subjectivity in Angel city and The Bostonians / RJ LaVelle -- "It's symbolic!" : Arthur Kopit's revised Road to Nirvana and its portrayal of Hollywood and society / Todd M. Lidh -- "The devil answers" : Drury Pifer's Strindberg in Hollywood / William Kerwin -- Last tycoon : Elia Kazan's and Harold Pinter's unsentimental Hollywood romance / Christopher C. Hudgins -- Hollywood as text in the plays of Christopher Hampton, with reference to David Rabe and Others / Kimball King -- Clash of verbal and visual (con)texts : Adrienne Kennedy's (re)construction of racial polarities in An evening with dead Essex and A movie star has to star in black and white / E. Barnsley Brown -- Hollywood as inspiration for the stage : the gay playwrights' perspective / Robert Gross and Kimball King -- Matter of bodies : women, pornography, and Hollywood in Marlane Meyer's Etta Jenks / Leslie Frost. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97022440 |
| ISBN | 0815328230 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PS338.M67 H65 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |