Streetcar Named Desire: from theatre to film and back

Authors

  • Alejandra Acosta Mota

Keywords:

film adaptation, theater and cinema, A Streetcar Named Desire, All About My Mother

Abstract

Elia Kazan and Pedro Almodóvar have successfully brought to the screen Tennessee William’s masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. Kazan adapted the play in a film that has become an American classic, while Almodóvar incorporated it in the narrative of his acclaimed film All About My Mother. This paper explores the connections between the play and the films as well as those between their different art forms.

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Published

2012-12-08

Issue

No. 10 (2012)

Section

Miscellaneous

License

The originals published in Latente are property of their respective authors, who grant to the magazine the right of first publication of the texts and their lodging in other web portals in order to guarantee their preservation and a greater diffusion. Article contents are subject to a CC BY-NC-SA license.

How to Cite

Acosta Mota, Alejandra. 2012. “Streetcar Named Desire: From Theatre to Film and Back”. Latente - Revista de Historia Y Estética del Cine, Fotografí­a Y Cultura Visual, no. 10 (December): 87-104. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/latente/article/view/5874.