Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America

by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray

Book Overview

No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured in such screen adaptations as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly, Last Summer, reflects the sea change in American culture in the mid-twentieth century. Placing this body of work within relevant contexts ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292723040
• ISBN13: 9780292723047
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"