Truman Capote - A Literary Life at the Movies

Informationen zum Autor Tison Pugh is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature ! and Queering Medieval Genres and coeditor of Queer Movie Medievalisms ! among other titles. Klappentext Truman Capote once remarked, "My primary thing is that I'm a prose writer. I don't think film is the greatest living thing”. His legacy is, nonetheless, in many ways defined by his complex relationship with cinema, Hollywood, and celebrity. Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, skilfully weaving the most relevant elements of Capote's biography with insightful critical analysis of the films, screenplays, and adaptations of his works. Zusammenfassung Pugh explores Capote through a cinematic lens, skillfully weaving the most relevant elements of Capote’s biography with insightful critical analysis of the films, screenplays, and adaptations of his works that composed his fraught relationship with the Hollywood machine.

Product details

• Authors: Tison Pugh
• Assisted by: R. Palmer (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2014
• EAN: 9780820346687
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4668-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: South on Screen; The South on Screen
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies