9781107000650 (hardback)

1107000653 (hardback)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (pages 289-292).

Introduction / by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray

Realism, censorship, and social promise of Dead end / by Amanda Klein

Screening Our town (1940): or the problem of looking at everything hard enough / by David Eldridge

Screening Death of a salesman: Arthur Miller's cinema and its discontents / by R. Barton Palmer

Elia Kazan's A streetcar named desire / by William Robert Bray

Come back, little scopophile: William Inge, Daniel Mann, and cinematic voyeurism / by John S. Bak

The big knife: Hollywood's fable about moral values and success / by Christopher Ames

Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A raisin in the sun / by Martin Halliwell

The children's hour / by Neil Sinyard

Screening Long day's journey into night / by Mary F. Brewer

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / by David Lavery and Nancy Mcguire Roche

Sex, lies, and independent film: realism and reality in Sam Shepard's Fool for love / by Annette Saddik

Actor, image, action: Anthony Ddrazan's Hurlyburly (1998) / by Laurence Raw

David Mamet brings film to Oleanna / by Brenda Murphy

To what end wit? / by John D. Sykes, jr

Theatrical, cinematic, and domestic epic in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (on stage and screen) / by Tison Pugh.

American drama > Film adaptations.

Film adaptations > History and criticism.

Motion pictures and literature > United States.