The Great American Playwrights on the Screen

The Great American Playwrights on the Screen
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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages : 580
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ISBN-10 : 1557835128
ISBN-13 : 9781557835123
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Book Synopsis The Great American Playwrights on the Screen by : Jerry Roberts

Download or read book The Great American Playwrights on the Screen written by Jerry Roberts and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The profound expansion of television into American homes in the 1950s brought a flood of adapted plays to the small screen and resulted in the rebirth of the careers of many significant playwrights. The Great American Playwrights on the Screen provides fans with a video and DVD guide to the adapted works of the playwrights and shows which versions are available for home viewing and in what media (VHS and DVD). It resurrects the memory of television productions of plays at a critical time, when many of them - including Emmy winners and nominees - are deteriorating in vaults."--BOOK JACKET.


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