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..". insights and expertise which all together furnish a useful addition to Pinter studies." -- Modern Language Review
Essays by both scholars and theater artists examine the work of British playwright Harold Pinter. The essays focus on performance, politics, gender issues, interpersonal manipulation, style and language, on influence, and on the interplay between Pinter's theatrical and film-scripting careers. Illustrated.
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Pinter in Rehearsal: From The Birthday Party to Mountain Language | p. 3 |
| Producing Pinter | p. 18 |
| Harold Pinter's Theatre of Cruelty | p. 27 |
| Harold Pinter's The Hothouse: A Parable of the Holocaust | p. 37 |
| Disjuncture as Theatrical and Postmodern Practice in Griselda Gambaro's The Camp and Harold Pinter's Mountain Language | p. 49 |
| The Outsider in Pinter and Havel | p. 64 |
| The Betrayal of Facts: Pinter and Duras beyond Adaptation | p. 79 |
| Image and Attention in Harold Pinter | p. 90 |
| Pinter and the Ethos of Minimalism | p. 100 |
| Chekhov, Beckett, Pinter: The St(r)ain upon the Silence | p. 111 |
| "That first last look..." | p. 125 |
| A Rose by any other name: Pinter and Shakespeare | p. 129 |
| From Novel to Film: Harold Pinter's Adaptation of The Trial | p. 137 |
| "I am powerful...and I am only the lowest doorkeeper": Power Play in Kafka's The Trial and Pinter's Victoria Station | p. 149 |
| Art Objects as Metaphors in the Filmscripts of Harold Pinter | p. 163 |
| Pinter and Bowen: The Heat of the Day | p. 173 |
| Portrait of Deborah: A Kind of Alaska | p. 185 |
| Deborah's Homecoming in A Kind of Alaska: An Afterword | p. 193 |
| Works Cited | p. 201 |
| Contributors | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 213 |
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ISBN: 9780253208118
ISBN-10: 0253208114
Series: Drama and Performance Studies
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 22nd September 1993
Publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR
Dimensions (cm): 22.454 x 13.31
x 1.702
Weight (kg): 0.386
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