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George Orwell on Screen - Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas on Film and Television (Paperback)
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George Orwell on Screen - Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas on Film and Television (Paperback)
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British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two
iconic novels: the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the
dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. Within years of his
death in 1950, the CIA was bankrolling movies of both to use as
global Cold War propaganda. Orwell's depiction of a Big Brother
police state, written as a warning to humanity, fixated the media
in the real 1980s. Now, as fears of an electronic surveillance
society mount, political events in America have made him a hot
property in Hollywood. After years of research and dozens of candid
interviews with actors, writers, directors and producers,
journalist David Ryan has produced the first authoritative study of
Orwell on film and television. Beginning with a CBS play that
mirrored the McCarthy witch hunts of the early fifties, he looks in
detail at 20 wide-ranging productions, covering every adaptation,
major documentary and biopic. Littered with eye-opening anecdotes,
and featuring a detailed appraisal of two lost BBC dramatizations
from 1965, this unique reference work shows what popular culture
has made-and continues to make-of a literary genius whose work has
never seemed more relevant.
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