Sharp Cut (eBook)
538 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-4795-6 (ISBN)
While best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter held an equally successful career writing screenplays. His collaborations with English director Joseph Losey garnered great attention and esteem, and he was nominated for two Academy Awards for best screenplay: The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1981 and Betrayal in 1983 . He is also credited for writing an unproduced script to remake Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita. Much scholarship has been dedicated to the subject of Pinter as playwright, but the rich landscape of his work in film has been left largely undisturbed.
In Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process, Steven H. Gale, the world's foremost Pinter scholar, analyzes Pinter's creative process from initial conception to finished film. Gale makes careful, point-by-point comparisons of each stage in the screenplay's creation -- the source material, the adaptations themselves, and the films made from the scripts -- in order to reveal the meaning behind each film script and to explain the cinematic techniques used to express that meaning.
Unlike most Pinter scholars, who focus almost solely on the written word, Gale devotes discussion to the cinematic interpretation of the scripts through camera angles and movement, cutting, and other techniques. Pinter does not merely convert his stage scripts to screenplays; he adapts the works to succeed in the other medium, avoiding elements of the live play that do not work onscreen and using the camera's focusing operations in ways that are not possible on the stage.
As Pinter's career progressed and his writing evolved, screenplays became for him an increasingly vital means of creative expression. Sharp Cut is the first study to fully explore this important component of the Pinter canon.
PrefaceChronologyIntroduction 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 LolitaBits and PiecesThe Creative/ Collaborative ProcessConclusionsAppendix A:: Quick ReferenceAppendix B:: Honors and Awards for ScreenwritingAppendix C:: Film and Television DirectingAppendix D:: Movie and Television Roles Acted by PinterNotesBibliography:: Works CitedSelected BibliographyIndex
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.1.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | 27 b&w halftones |
Verlagsort | Lexington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 150 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Schlagworte | Academy Award • Actor • Actress • Adaptation • Audience • Film • Irony • juxtaposition • language • Lolita • Margaret Atwood • Montage • Movie • music • opening out • Orson Welles • Oscar • Playwright • screenplay • screenwriter • Screeplay • Sound • Sports • Stanley Kubrick • Symbol • Symbolism • technique • Television • The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal • The Handmaid's Tale • Theme • verification • Voice over |
ISBN-10 | 0-8131-4795-6 / 0813147956 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8131-4795-6 / 9780813147956 |
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