TY - BOOK AU - Bray,William Robert AU - Palmer,R.Barton TI - Modern American Drama on Screen SN - 9780511843709 (ebook) AV - PS338.M67 M63 2013 U1 - 791.430973 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016) N2 - From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key texts, of how Hollywood has given a second and enduring life to such classics of the American theater as Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and focuses on Broadway's most admired and popular productions. The book is ideally suited for classroom use and offers an otherwise unavailable introduction to a subject which is of great interest to students and scholars alike UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511843709 ER -