Modern American Drama on Screen

Focusing on key texts, leading scholars explore how Hollywood has given an enduring life to the classics of Broadway theater.

Introduction R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray; 1. Realism, censorship, and social promise of Dead End Amanda Klein; 2. Screening Our Town (1940): or the problem of 'looking at everything hard enough' David Eldridge; 3. Screening Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller's cinema and its discontents R. Barton Palmer; 4. Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire William Robert Bray; 5. Come back, little Scopophile: William Inge, Daniel Mann, and cinematic voyeurism John S. Bak; 6. The Big Knife: Hollywood's 'fable about moral values and success' Christopher Ames; 7. Adapting Lorraine Hansberry's sociological imagination: race, housing, and health in A Raisin in the Sun Martin Halliwell; 8. The Children's Hour Neil Sinyard; 9. Screening Long Day's Journey into Night Mary F. Brewer; 10. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? David Lavery and Nancy McGuire Roche; 11. Sex, lies, and independent film: realism and reality in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love Annette Saddik; 12. Actor, image, action: Anthony Drazan's Hurlyburly (1998) Laurence Raw; 13. David Mamet brings film to Oleanna Brenda Murphy; 14. To what end Wit? John D. Sykes, Jr; 15. Theatrical, cinematic, and domestic epic in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (on stage and screen) Tison Pugh; Filmography.