Kimball King

Hollywood on Stage

Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, and Adrienne Kennedy. A substantial proportion of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the way in which these authors deconstruct Hollywood myths to reveal painful social and psychological issues in American life, providing a deeper and darker picture than the simple satires of movie-making in the 1920s and 1930s or Odets's comparison of the commercially debased Hollywood with the higher, purer art of the theatre. To complete and further complicate the picture, the volume concludes with essays on the African American experience, gay writers, and feminist writing as seen through the lens of Marlane Myer's ETTA JENKS. It is obvious that the legitimate stage remains a watchdog and constant critic of what is possibly the world's most powerful cultural phenomenon This book will be eargerly read by all students of film, theatre, and 20th century literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9781138884076
• ISBN-10: 1138884073
• Artikelnr.: 42786480

Autorenporträt

Kimball King

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Kimball King; Part HOLLYWOOD ON STAGE; Chapter 1 "Engaged in the Art of Photodrama": Merton of the Movies
William Hutchings; Chapter 2 What Makes Sammy Run?: S. N. Behrman and the Fugitive Kind
Robert F. Gross; Chapter 3 Hollywood as Moral Landscape: Clifford Odets' The Big Knife
Albert Wertheim; Chapter 4 Hollywood on the Contemporary Stage: Image
Phallic "Players
" and the Culture Industry
Stephen Watt; Chapter 5 Staging Hollywood
Selling Out
Marcia Blumberg; Chapter 6 Sanctity
Seduction or Settling Scores Against the Swine in Speed-the-Plow?
Leslie Kane; Chapter 7 So Dis Is Hollywood: Mamet in Hell
Toby Silverman Zinman; Chapter 8 The Myth of Narcissus: Shepard's True West and Mamet's Speed-the-Plow
Katherine H. Burkman; Chapter 9 Alienation Effects and Exteriorized Subjectivity in Angel City and The Bostonians
RJ LaVelle; Chapter 10 "It's Symbolic!"-Arthur Kopit's Revised Road to Nirvana and Its Portrayal of Hollywood and Society
Todd M. Lidh; Chapter 11 "The Devil Answers": Drury Pifer's Strindberg in Hollywood
William Kerwin; Chapter 12 The Last Tycoon: Elia Kazan's and Harold Pinter's Unsentimental Hollywood Romance
Christopher C. Hudgins; Chapter 13 Hollywood as Text in the Plays of Christopher Hampton
with Reference to David Rabe and Others
Kimball King; Chapter 14 The 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; Chapter 15 Hollywood as Inspiration for the Stage: The Gay Playwrights' Perspective
Robert Gross
Kimball King; Chapter 16 The Matter of Bodies: Women
Pornography
and Hollywood in Marlane Meyer's Etta Jenks
Leslie Frost; Index;