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Author:   John S. Bak
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   54
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.786kg
ISBN:  

9789042038738

ISBN 10:   904203873
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Ackowledgments Foreword , Thomas Keith: Introduction , John S. Bak: Part One: Tennessee Williams and Europe En avant! Tennessee Williams between Hyperborea and the Mediterranean , Felicia Hardison Londre: 'Violets & Carnations Sold on every Corner': Tennessee Williams, Europe and Flowers , James M. DelPrince: 'Lightning in a Cloud': Tennessee Williams' Theatrical Expressionism , Henry I. Schvey: Sergei Eisenstein, Hollywood and Tennessee Williams' 'Plastic Theatre' , Richard Hayes: The View from Here and Abroad: Tennessee Williams and 1950s Hollywood Cinema , R. Barton Palmer: Part Two: Tennessee Williams and Europe's Intercultural Encounters Williams and Bergman, Lust and Death: Culturally Translating A Streetcar Named Desire in Post-war Sweden , Dirk Gindt: Tennessee Williams' Ladies Speak Italian: Cinematic Voices on Stage and in Dubbing , Alessandro Clericuzio: Sea, Sun and 'Quien Sabe!': Tennessee Williams and Spain , Laura Torres-Zuniga: Tennessee Williams in Spain: The Early Years (1945-1957) , Ramon Espejo Romero: Tennessee Williams on the Bulgarian Stage: Cold War Politics and Politics of Reception , Kornelia Slavova: Part Three: Tennessee Williams and Europe's Transatlantic Exchanges The Kindness of Strangers?: Tennessee Williams in France and Germany , David Savran: Their Date with Each Other from the Beginning: Tennessee Williams and Harold Pinter , Michael Paller: Tennessee Williams and Ivo van Hove at Home Abroad , Johan Callens: Un Tramway: Warlikowski's Desire to Reignite American Theatre in Europe , Xavier Lemoine: Pedro Almodovar's 'Homage' to Tennessee Williams , Michael S. D. Hooper: Notes on Contributors Index

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John S. Bak is Professeur at the Université de Lorraine in France. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois, Ball State University and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Univerzity Palackého in the Czech Republic in 1995 and a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford (2014), Columbia (2013), and Harvard (2011) universities. He is the editor of Tennessee Williams’ New Selected Essays: Where I Live (2009) and the author of the monographs Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities (2009) and Tennessee Williams: A Literary Life (2013).

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