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Sharp Cut - Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Hardcover, New)
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Sharp Cut - Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Hardcover, New)
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While best known as one of the most important playwrights of the
twentieth century, Harold Pinter held an equally successful career
writing screenplays. His collaborations with English director
Joseph Losey garnered great attention and esteem, and he was
nominated for two Academy Awards for best screenplay: The French
Lieutenant's Woman in 1981 and Betrayal in 1983 . He is also
credited for writing an unproduced script to remake Stanley
Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita. Much scholarship has been
dedicated to the subject of Pinter as playwright, but the rich
landscape of his work in film has been left largely undisturbed. 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.
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 -- in order to
reveal the meaning behind each film script and to explain the
cinematic techniques used to express that meaning. Unlike most
Pinter scholars, who focus almost solely on the written word, Gale
devotes discussion to the cinematic interpretation of the scripts
through camera angles and movement, cutting, and other techniques.
Pinter does not merely convert his stage scripts to screenplays; he
adapts the works to succeed in the other medium, avoiding elements
of the live play that do not work onscreen and using the camera's
focusing operations in ways that are not possible on the stage. As
Pinter's career progressed and his writing evolved, screenplays
became for him an increasingly vital means of creative expression.
Sharp Cut is the first study to fully explore this important
component of the Pinter canon.
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