Truman Capote : a literary life at the movies / Tison Pugh.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: South on screenPublication details: Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, c2014.Description: xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780820346687 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0820346683 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780820346694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0820346691 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3505.A59 Z835 2014
Contents:
Capote and the cinema: an overview -- Capote in the queer house of fame: stars and celebrity personas -- Scriptwriter for the stars: Capote's screen adaptations of Indiscretion of an American wife, Beat the devil, and The innocents -- Holly Golightly's queer world: Blake Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Capote, crime, and capital punishment: Richard Brooks's In cold blood -- Turning a princess into a star: Capote, Lee Bouvier Radziwill, and Laura -- Capote for the holidays: A Christmas memory (and trilogy), The thanksgiving visitor, and One Christmas -- Capote's southern childhoods: Other voices, other rooms, The grass harp, and Children on their birthdays -- Capote's unfinished business: abandoned and unproduced projects -- Playing Capote: Tru, Capote, Infamous, and other parodic and iconic portrayals -- Notes -- Cinema Capoteana.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.

Capote and the cinema: an overview -- Capote in the queer house of fame: stars and celebrity personas -- Scriptwriter for the stars: Capote's screen adaptations of Indiscretion of an American wife, Beat the devil, and The innocents -- Holly Golightly's queer world: Blake Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Capote, crime, and capital punishment: Richard Brooks's In cold blood -- Turning a princess into a star: Capote, Lee Bouvier Radziwill, and Laura -- Capote for the holidays: A Christmas memory (and trilogy), The thanksgiving visitor, and One Christmas -- Capote's southern childhoods: Other voices, other rooms, The grass harp, and Children on their birthdays -- Capote's unfinished business: abandoned and unproduced projects -- Playing Capote: Tru, Capote, Infamous, and other parodic and iconic portrayals -- Notes -- Cinema Capoteana.

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