Truman Capote : a literary life at the movies /
Tison Pugh.
- Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
- xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- The south on screen .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.