Books : Women in Love and Other Dramatic Writings: Women in Love, Sissies' Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, Just Say No, The Farce in Just Saying No
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
EAN num: 9780802139160
ISBN number: 0802139167
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 496
Printing Date: January 24, 2003
Publishing house: Grove Press
Sale Popularity Level: 1265348
Studio: Grove Press
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Larry Kramer has been described by Susan Sontag as 'one of America's most valuable troublemakers.' As Frank Rich writes in his Foreword to this new collection of writings for the screen and stage, 'his plays are almost journalistic in their observation of the fine-grained documentary details of life ... that may well prove timeless.' The title work, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Women in Love, is a movie 'as sensuous as anything you've probably ever seen on film' (The New York Times). The screenplay is accompanied by Kramer's reflections on the history of the production, sure to be of interest to any student of film. This volume also includes several early plays, Sissies' Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, and the political farce Just Say No, illuminating the development of one of our most important literary figures. 'Since his screenplay for Women in Love, Kramer has been a prophet of psychic health and catastrophe among us.' -- from The American Academy of Arts and Letters citation
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"Women In Love" ranks among the finest films from an unrivaled era in screen history. "Faggots" was and remains a seminal American novel, and "The Normal Heart" one of the best and most produced American plays of the twentieth century. This book charts for lovers of great writing exactly how Kramer forged himself into a literary triple threat. It's easy to be distracted by his formidable civic achievements and confrontational public persona, but as an artist and living writer of fiction he ranks among the grand masters. This book is a treasure.
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Larry Kramer won an Oscar for his screenplay in WOMEN IN LOVE, and has received quite a bit of attention for his political dramas. Sadly, they're not very good. WOMEN IN LOVE still reads as campy and overbaked, and the dramas seem shrill and uninteresting. In an essay on his much-lambasted satire JUST SAY NO, Kramer vigorously champions what he sees as the play's genius (he favorably compares himself to Aristophanes!), and though he rightly scores points against the prissier critics who deplored the play's lack of good taste he fails to consider that the play was (and remains) obvious and unfunny.
Kramer is an inspired political writer, and though you may disagree with him his essays are always worth reading if you care about gay identity. But he is a weak and obvious playwright and screenwriter.
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