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Ryan David - George Orwell On Screen Adaptations Documentaries And Docudramas On Film And Television - Paperback
Ryan David - George Orwell On Screen Adaptations Documentaries And Docudramas On Film And Television - Paperback
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Description: British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels: the anti - Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty - Four. A few years after his death in 1950, the CI a bankrolled screen adaptations of both novels as Cold War propaganda. Orwell's depiction of a totalitarian police state captivated the media in the 1980s. Today mounting anxieties about digital surveillance and globalization have made him a hot property in Hollywood. Drawing on interviews with actors writers directors and producers this book presents the first comprehensive study of Orwell on film and television. Beginning with CBS's 1953 live production of Nineteen Eighty - Four that mirrored the Mc Carthy witch hunts the author covers 20 wide - ranging adaptations documentaries and biopics including two lost BBC dramatizations from 1965.
Title: George Orwell On Screen Adaptations Documentaries And Docudramas On Film And Television
Author(s): Ryan David
Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc
Barcode: 9781476673691
Pages: 255 Pages, 23 Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Publication Date: 9/26/2018
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels: the anti - Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty - Four. A few years after his death in 1950, the CI a bankrolled screen adaptations of both novels as Cold War propaganda. Orwell's depiction of a totalitarian police state captivated the media in the 1980s. Today mounting anxieties about digital surveillance and globalization have made him a hot property in Hollywood. Drawing on interviews with actors writers directors and producers this book presents the first comprehensive study of Orwell on film and television. Beginning with CBS's 1953 live production of Nineteen Eighty - Four that mirrored the Mc Carthy witch hunts the author covers 20 wide - ranging adaptations documentaries and biopics including two lost BBC dramatizations from 1965.
Title: George Orwell On Screen Adaptations Documentaries And Docudramas On Film And Television
Author(s): Ryan David
Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc
Barcode: 9781476673691
Pages: 255 Pages, 23 Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Publication Date: 9/26/2018
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
