Description |
1 online resource (xii, 303 pages). |
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Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 287) and index. |
Contents |
On Lillian Hellman: the legacy ; Biography of Lillian Hellman / Carl Rollyson -- The Paris Review perspective / Anna Hartford for The Paris Review -- Lillian Hellman and the art of the play ; The formation of Lillian Hellman: radical, celebrity, and mythologizer / Bernard F. Dick -- Hellman and Williams: the critical connection ; Lillian Hellman: the critical reception / Geraldine Thorsten -- "Good and evil" in Lillian Hellman's The children's hour / Philip M. Armato -- Breeding (and) reading: lesbian knowledge, eugenic discipline, and The children's hour / Mikko Tuhkanen -- The lesbian vanishes: These three -- Lillian' Hellman's adaptation of The children's hour (1936) / Brett Elizabeth Westbrook -- "These three": the influence of William Wyler and Gregg Toland on Lillian Hellman / Richard Hayes -- Second chances: the remake of Lillian Hellman's The children's hour / Brett Elizabeth Westbrook -- Lillian Hellman's The little foxes and the new south creed: an ironic view of southern history / Ritchie D. Watson, Jr. -- Gentlemen's games & witches' brews: Lillian Hellman's Another part of the forest and the emergence of the Cold War culture / Randall Fallows -- Another part of the country: Lillian Hellman as southern playwright / W. Kenneth Holditch -- Miss Hellman's two sisters / Jacob H. Adler -- "Julia": memory in Pentimento and on film / Marsha McCreadie -- "Julia" and Julia's son / Edward Gillin -- Scoundrel time: mobilizing the American intelligentsia for the Cold War / Richard A. Falk. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Summary |
This volume discusses the life and major works of Lillian Hellman, one of the foremost American playwrights of the twentieth century, who was also an acclaimed autobiographer, controversial public figure, and screenwriter. |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984.
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Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984. (OCoLC)fst01427356
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Hellman, Lillian. (DE-588c)4024324-2
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Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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DRAMA -- American.
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Dramatists, American. (OCoLC)fst00897556
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author |
Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lillian Hellman. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587658297 (DLC) 2011019022 (OCoLC)726150219 |
ISBN |
9781587658822 (electronic bk.) |
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1587658828 (electronic bk.) |
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