“A Religious Orgy in Tennessee”: the (Mis)representation of the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial in Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind and Its Cinematic Adaptations
The aim of my paper is to explore the extent to which the popular representations of the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial (1925) in the media of the day, in the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, Inherit the Wind (1955) and its subsequent cinematic adaptations have altered the American public’s perc...
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Bucharest University Press
2015-12-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/RalucaAndreescu-1.pdf |