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Truman Capote : a literary life at the movies /

by Pugh, Tison [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: The south on screen.Publisher: Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]Description: xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780820346694; 0820346691.Subject(s): Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation | Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 -- Film adaptations
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.
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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.

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