{"product_id":"sharp-cut-harold-pinters-screenplays-and-the-artistic-process-9780813180502","title":"Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter (1930--2008) had an equally successful career writing screenplays. His collaborations with director Joseph Losey garnered great attention and esteem, and two of his screenplays earned Academy Award nominations: \u003ci\u003eThe French Lieutenant's Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1981) and \u003ci\u003eBetrayal \u003c\/i\u003e(1983) \u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also credited for writing an unproduced script to remake Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Pinter's career progressed and his writing evolved, screenplays became for him an increasingly vital means of creative expression. \u003ci\u003eSharp Cut\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study to fully explore this important component of the Pinter canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813180502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 538","brand":"Steven H. Gale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38351149203637,"sku":"9780813180502","price":29.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ff2d3465-d7cd-4849-a6ef-3490cb333a5a.jpg?v=1611647613","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sharp-cut-harold-pinters-screenplays-and-the-artistic-process-9780813180502","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}