Gene Phillips
"A landmark in scholarship."
Book Description
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 the Author
Steven H. Gale, university endowed chair in the humanities at Kentucky State University and author of several books, was the founding president of the Harold Pinter Society and founding co-editor of The Pinter Review.
Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process FROM THE PUBLISHER
In Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process, Steven H. Gale, the world's foremost Pinter scholar, analyzes Pinter's creative process from initial conception to finished film, bringing unparalleled insight to information from the Pinter Archives in the British Library, the Margaret Herrick Library at the Association for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and unpublished materials provided by Pinter himself. To reveal the meaning of all of the film scripts and to explain the cinematic techniques used to express that meaning, Gale makes careful, point-by-point comparisons of each stage in the screenplay's creation - the source material, the adaptations themselves, and the films made from the scripts.
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