Harold Pinters Screenplays

Contents Preface. Introduction. 1. Poetics of screenplays adaptation of variation. 2. Montage and language games. the servant. 3. The flashback the Pumpkin eater. 4. Long shot close up the quiller memorandum. 5. Inter cuts accident. 6. Voice over image the go between. 7. The proust screenplay. 8. Making pictures the last tycoon. 9. Off screen on screen the French Lieturnants woman. 10. Long shot close up Langrishe go down. 11. The still and the moving image the heat of the day. summing up. Selected bibliography. Index. This study presents a reading of Harold Pinters contribution to the emerging genre of the screenplay. Harold Pinter more than any other writer has contributed to this film based genre. His screenplays find their source in great works of fiction. A more responsive approach has been possible in analysing these screenplays as a variation of the original in form as well as in theme rather than consider them in relation to the fidelity to the source. Pinters screenplays are highly experimental. They almost become an analogue of the original. The study ultimately establishes that the screenplay can be read interpreted and assessed as a literary text. 162 pp.