Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Pugh, Tison

Publication

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

xii, 287 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The South on screen

Uniform Title

South on screen.

Subject

• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 > Criticism and interpretation
• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 > Film adaptations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

MWEM (Capote, T.) 14-4369

ISBN

• 9780820346687 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0820346683 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780820346694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0820346691 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013037744

OCLC

859447085

Author

Pugh, Tison, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The South on screen

South on screen.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

MWEM (Capote, T.) 14-4369