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Author : Horton Foote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selected One-act Plays of Horton Foote written by Horton Foote and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers seventeen short plays set in the small Texas town of Harrison.
Author : Charles S. Watson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773951
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Horton Foote written by Charles S. Watson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Young Man from Atlanta and Academy Awards for the screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and the original screenplay Tender Mercies, as well as the recipient of an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of The Trip to Bountiful and the William Inge Lifetime Achievement Award, Horton Foote is one of America's most respected writers for stage and screen. The deep compassion he shows for his characters, the moral vision that infuses his social commentary, and the kindness and humanity that Foote himself radiates have also made him one of our most revered artists—the father-figure who understands our longings for home, for human connections, and for certainty in a world largely bereft of these. This literary biography thoroughly investigates how Horton Foote's life and worldview have shaped his works for stage, television, and film. Tracing the whole trajectory of Foote's career from his small-town Texas upbringing to the present day, Charles Watson demonstrates that Foote has created a fully imagined mythical world from the materials supplied by his own and his family's and friends' lives in Wharton, Texas, in the early twentieth century. Devoting attention to each of Foote's major works in turn, he shows how this world took shape in Foote's writing for the New York stage, Golden Age television, Hollywood films, and in his nine-play masterpiece, The Orphan's Home Cycle. Throughout, Watson's focus on Foote as a master playwright and his extensive use of the dramatist's unpublished correspondence make this literary biography required reading for all who admire the work of Horton Foote.
Author : Charles S. Watson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318889X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The History of Southern Drama written by Charles S. Watson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias. Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams's changing depiction of the South—from sensitive analysis to outraged indictment—in response to the Civil Rights Movement. Watson links the work of the early Charleston dramatists and of Espy Williams, first modern dramatist of the South, to later twentieth-century drama. Strong heroines in plays of the Confederacy foreshadow the spunk of Tennessee Williams's Amanda Wingfield. Claiming that Beth Henley matches the satirical brilliance of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Watson connects her zany humor to 1840s New Orleans farces. With this work, Watson has at last answered the call for a single-volume, comprehensive history of the South's dramatic literature. With fascinating detail and seasoned perception, he reveals the rich heritage of southern drama.
Author : Gerald C. Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135636028
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Horton Foote written by Gerald C. Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first general critical introduction to the writing of Horton Foote, recipient of two Academy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. These original essays survey Foote's career, his work for theater, television, and film, with analysis of Foote's major themes and characteristic style in all three media. The casebook concludes with a list of Foote's produced work, as well as a selective annotated bibliography of primary criticism on the playwright. This book demonstrates the influence of personal biography and Southern literature on Foote's career. The essayists also investigate the writer's contribution to American dramatic realism and independent filmmaking, emphasizing his experimentation with musical structure, dedramatization, and complex subtexts. Foote's disarmingly simple stories, with their radically understated language, are explained in many articles as the product of the subtle influence of the psychological and religious views of the author.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Public Library Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey J. Folks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185599
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The World Is Our Home written by Jeffrey J. Folks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transformation of southern culture over the past thirty years and probe the social and cultural divisions that persist. The collection makes an important case for the centrality of social critique in contemporary southern fiction.
Author : Scot Lahaie
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595367461
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Horton Foote Review, Volume One written by Scot Lahaie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horton Foote Review is the scholarly journal of the Horton Foote Society, which is dedicated to the study of the life and work of the great American dramatist. Having received two Academy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the National Medal of Arts, Horton Foote is one of the most important living figures in the American Theater today. The six scholarly essays in this first volume of the journal are by scholars from diverse fields of learning and explore the importance of Mr. Foote's work (both stage and film) to the American literary tradition, with an eye for the importance of American drama during the twentieth century. The journal will appeal to anyone who believes in the power of drama as a sustaining influence in society. Contributors include: Richard A. Lusky, Robert Donahoo, Laurin Porter, Elizabeth Fifer, Meredith Sutton, and Gerald C. Wood.
Author : Horton Foote
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822207559
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Midnight Caller written by Horton Foote and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1959 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play is set in a boarding house in a small town on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Three unmarried women, Alma Jean, Cutie and Miss Rowena, have lived there for years, watching the life of the town. Helen Crews, after a disagreement with her mother, also moves in; Helen had been engaged to Harvey Weems, a charming but weak young man, and the two mothers had managed to break off the engagement. Now Harvey, in love with Helen, but not strong enough to defy his mother, comes every night to Helen's window to call her name. Ralph Johnston, an attractive young man, has just moved to town, and into the boarding house, where he becomes very much interested in Helen. Thanks to Ralph's love, Helen is at last able to leave the town and go off to a happy life of her own and marriage, and Harvey, the midnight caller, is left behind, still calling for her.
Author : Lisa Hinrichsen
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167150
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Small-Screen Souths written by Lisa Hinrichsen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sixteen essays that capitalize on recent innovations in cultural studies, media studies, and American studies, Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television assesses a diverse televisual archive to demonstrate how television studies can offer new critical possibilities for analyzing the complex histories of gender, sexuality, class, and race in the U.S. South. Small-Screen Souths analyzes historical and current depictions of the South and the way such depictions have influenced popular conceptions of the region.
Author : Juliette Yaakov
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Library Catalog written by Juliette Yaakov and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Cited in Sheehy and Walford. A core working tool for acquisitions librarians, reference librarians, and catalogers in public and undergraduate libraries, the Catalog is a list of recommended reference and nonfiction books for adults, published quinquennially with annual supplements for the intervening years. The titles are classified by subject and include complete bibliographical data as well as descriptive and critical annotations. This edition consists of 7,735 titles and 3,999 analytical entries. Some 4,000 additional titles will appear in the four supplements. In addition to the main classified catalog, there is a comprehensive author, title, subject, and analytical index, and a directory of publishers and distributors. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Horton Foote
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 0918954916
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Genesis of an American Playwright written by Horton Foote and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides To Kill A Mockingbird and The Trip To Bountiful, Foote has written a score of notable plays, teleplays, and films.
Author : Marian Burkhart
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1626527636
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Horton Foote's America written by Marian Burkhart and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Burkhart offers here an engaging discussion of the work of revered playwright Horton Foote, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and two Academy Awards. Hallie Foote, the playwright's daughter, has written a foreword. A tribute to Foote, Burkhart's book leads the reader into a body of work that continues to win acclaim and grow in popularity for its transcendent and timeless messages. As Burkhart explains, "All of us are the 'ordinary' people who are at home as they live their 'ordinary' lives in the town Foote built out of his inspired understanding of what life means. One has no need to be from East Texas or to go there, for the town exists fully only in the theater, and it houses all of us. That's why this book is called Horton Foote's America."
Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317326571
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Director as Collaborator written by Robert Knopf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theater, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites new chapter on devised and ensemble-based works new chapter on immersive theater, including material and exercises on environmental staging and audience–performer interaction
Author : Western Literature Association (U.S.)
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875651750
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Updating the Literary West written by Western Literature Association (U.S.) and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in honor of District Governor Hugh Summers and Mrs. Ahnise Summers by the Rotary Club of Aggieland with matching support from the Sara and John H. Lindsey '44 Fund, Texas A & M University Press, 2004.
Author : Joseph M. Flora
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807148555
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Southern Writers written by Joseph M. Flora and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.
Author : Horton Foote
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743217616
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Beginnings written by Horton Foote and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1939, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the experience of American life both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal for Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama, and the President's National Medal of Arts. Beginnings is the story of Foote's discovery of his own vocation. He didn't always want to write. When he left Wharton, Texas, at the age of sixteen to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, Foote aspired to be an actor. He remembers the terror and excitement of leaving home during the Depression, his early exposure to the influences of German theater, and the speech lessons he took to "cure" him of his Southern drawl. He eventually arrives in New York to search for acting jobs and to study with some of the great Russian and American teachers of the 1930s. But after mixed results on the stage, he finally recognizes his true passion, writing. From Martha Graham to Tennessee Williams, from Agnes de Mille to Lillian Gish, Horton collaborates with great artists in both dance and theater. The world he describes of fierce commitment and passion regardless of financial rewards is both captivating and inspiring. Through it all Horton maintains his genuine Southern charm, and he often travels home to Wharton, the town that nurtured him as a storyteller and has inspired his writing for the past sixty years. From one of the most moving and distinctive voices of our time, Beginnings is a rare, personal look at a fascinating era in American life, and at the making of a writer.
Author : Horton Foote
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Horton Foote: Collected plays written by Horton Foote and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The plays in this book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Horton Foote, include: The Trip to Bountiful, The Chase, The Traveling Lady, and The Roads to Home."-- Amazon.
