Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process - Softcover

Gale, Steven H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813180503 ISBN 13: 9780813180502

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2021

Synopsis

Best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal, collaborations with English director Joseph Losey, and an unproduced script for the remake of Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita. In this definitive study of Pinter's screenplays, Steven H. Gale compares the scripts with their sources and the resulting films, analyzes their stages of development, and shows how Pinter creates unique works of art by extracting the essence from his source and rendering it in cinematic terms. Gale introduces each film, traces the events that led to the script's writing, examines critical reaction to the film, and provides an extensive bibliography, appendices, and an index.

About this title

About the Author

Steven H. Gale is the University Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Kentucky State University and is the author of more than twenty books, including Butter's Going Up: A Critical Analysis of Harold Pinter's Work and Harold Pinter: An Annotated Bibliography. Gale was the founding president of the Harold Pinter Society and founding coeditor of The Pinter Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813180503
• ISBN 13: 9780813180502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 538