'Terrific! With a dynamically deft touch, Philip Gefter chronicles how a uniquely volatile mix of timing, talent, pressure, and passion turned a landscape-altering play into a cinematic detonation. Savor this juicy bit of time travel, because we'll never see the likes of these people and these circumstances again' Steven SoderberghFrom its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained a middle-aged couple through decades of marriage. It scandalised critics but magnetised audiences. Then, Hollywood took a colossal gamble on Albee's sophisticated play and won. Co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the sensational 1966 film won five Oscars. How this scorching play became a movie classic-surviving censorship attempts, its creators' inexperience, and its stars' own tumultuous marriage, is one of the most riveting stories in all of cinema. Acclaimed author Philip Gefter traces Woolf from its hushed origins in Greenwich Village, through its tormented production process, to its explosion onto screens and permanent place in the canon of cinematic marriages. He explores how two couples - one fictional, one all too real - brought to light our most deeply held myths about relationships, sex, family, and, against all odds, love.
CONTRIBUTORS: Philip GefterEAN: 9781804186756COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bonnier Books LtdDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / ReferenceWIDTH: 153 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Individual actors and performers, Film history, theory or criticism, Biography: arts and entertainment
'A penetrating examination of a bold film', 'Terrific! With a dynamically deft touch, Philip Gefter chronicles how a uniquely volatile mix of timing, talent, pressure, and passion turned a landscape-altering play into a cinematic detonation. Savour this juicy bit of time travel, because we'll never see the likes of these people and these circumstances again', '... vividly captures the realities of marriage, onscreen and off, taking the reader into the fraught fictional world of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as well as its stars' famously passionate and volatile relationship', 'A wonderfully readable work of cultural history, sexual politics, and social comedy', '[An] erudite study . . . Gefter persuasively credits the film with setting the template for more bracing Hollywood depictions of love after romance's first blush. This will renew readers' admiration for the classic film and its source material'
Philip Gefter is the author of What Becomes a Legend Most: The Biography of Richard Avedon; Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, which received the 2014 Marfield Prize for arts writing; and an essay collection, Photography After Frank. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker: Photobooth, Aperture, and the New York Times, where he was an editor and photography critic for over fifteen years. He also served as a producer on the award-winning documentary, Bill Cunningham: New York. He lives in New York City.
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'Terrific! With a dynamically deft touch, Philip Gefter chronicles how a uniquely volatile mix of timing, talent, pressure, and passion turned a landscape-altering play into a cinematic detonation. Savor this juicy bit of time travel, because we'll never see the likes of these people and these circumstances again' Steven SoderberghFrom its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained a middle-aged couple through decades of marriage. It scandalised critics but magnetised audiences. Then, Hollywood took a colossal gamble on Albee's sophisticated play and won. Co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the sensational 1966 film won five Oscars. How this scorching play became a movie classic-surviving censorship attempts, its creators' inexperience, and its stars' own tumultuous marriage, is one of the most riveting stories in all of cinema. Acclaimed author Philip Gefter traces Woolf from its hushed origins in Greenwich Village, through its tormented production process, to its explosion onto screens and permanent place in the canon of cinematic marriages. He explores how two couples - one fictional, one all too real - brought to light our most deeply held myths about relationships, sex, family, and, against all odds, love.
CONTRIBUTORS: Philip GefterEAN: 9781804186756COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bonnier Books LtdDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / ReferenceWIDTH: 153 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Individual actors and performers, Film history, theory or criticism, Biography: arts and entertainment
Philip Gefter is the author of What Becomes a Legend Most: The Biography of Richard Avedon; Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, which received the 2014 Marfield Prize for arts writing; and an essay collection, Photography After Frank. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker: Photobooth, Aperture, and the New York Times, where he was an editor and photography critic for over fifteen years. He also served as a producer on the award-winning documentary, Bill Cunningham: New York. He lives in New York City.
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