Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen
This study explores the representation of the American South in the film adaptations of five plays by the Mississippi-born playwright, Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958), Suddenly Last Summer (Jo...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2012-01-01
|
| Series: | Transatlantica |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5406 |
| _version_ | 1811316400582557696 |
|---|---|
| author | Taïna Tuhkunen |
| author_facet | Taïna Tuhkunen |
| author_sort | Taïna Tuhkunen |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This study explores the representation of the American South in the film adaptations of five plays by the Mississippi-born playwright, Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958), Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) and The Night of the Iguana (John Huston, 1964). The article focuses on the disrespectful representations of the paradigmatic Southern garden which remains dynamic while maintaining some of its classic or biblical features. By relying on the conception of the pastoral garden as theorized by Leo Marx in The Machine in the Garden (1964), the author pays specific attention to the way mid-xxth century cinema kept recreating Williams’s Southern gardens as a corrupted and dehumanized space pierced through by disquieting shrieks. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-13T11:49:25Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-53ef0be429304e6d89865cdfdc069f7d |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1765-2766 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-13T11:49:25Z |
| publishDate | 2012-01-01 |
| publisher | Association Française d'Etudes Américaines |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Transatlantica |
| spelling | doaj.art-53ef0be429304e6d89865cdfdc069f7d2022-12-22T02:48:06ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662012-01-01110.4000/transatlantica.5406Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screenTaïna TuhkunenThis study explores the representation of the American South in the film adaptations of five plays by the Mississippi-born playwright, Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958), Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) and The Night of the Iguana (John Huston, 1964). The article focuses on the disrespectful representations of the paradigmatic Southern garden which remains dynamic while maintaining some of its classic or biblical features. By relying on the conception of the pastoral garden as theorized by Leo Marx in The Machine in the Garden (1964), the author pays specific attention to the way mid-xxth century cinema kept recreating Williams’s Southern gardens as a corrupted and dehumanized space pierced through by disquieting shrieks.http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5406Tennessee Williamscorrupted gardenSouthern gardensanimal allegoriesSouthern Bellescinema of the South |
| spellingShingle | Taïna Tuhkunen Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen Transatlantica Tennessee Williams corrupted garden Southern gardens animal allegories Southern Belles cinema of the South |
| title | Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen |
| title_full | Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen |
| title_fullStr | Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen |
| title_short | Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen |
| title_sort | tennessee williams s post pastoral southern gardens in text and on the movie screen |
| topic | Tennessee Williams corrupted garden Southern gardens animal allegories Southern Belles cinema of the South |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5406 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT tainatuhkunen tennesseewilliamsspostpastoralsoutherngardensintextandonthemoviescreen |