Elective affinities

Tennessee Williams and Woody Allen

Autores

  • Marcos C. P. Soares USP - Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14472984

Palavras-chave:

Memória, Comédia, Blue Jasmine (film), A streetcar named Desire (peça)

Resumo

This essay proposes an exercise in comparative dramaturgy by bringing together the works of Tennessee Williams and of the filmmaker Woody Allen. In order to do this, we will start from comments made by the two artists regarding themes in common in both works, as well as a brief analysis of the film Blue Jasmine (2017), which takes up themes and forms from the play A streetcar named Desire (1947) and updates them to deal with contemporary historical materials.

Biografia do Autor

  • Marcos C. P. Soares, USP - Universidade de São Paulo

    Marcos C. P. Soares holds a degree in English from the University of São Paulo (1990) and a PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English from the University of São Paulo (2000). He completed postdoctoral studies at Yale University, USA (2004) and Columbia University, USA (2012). He is a tenured professor at the University of São Paulo. He has experience in the area of Literature, with an emphasis on English and North American Literature, working mainly on the following themes: materialist criticism, narrative and history, cinema and North American novels.

Referências

ALLEN, Woody. Apropos of nothing. Autobiography. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2020.

COSTA, Iná Camargo. Panorama do rio vermelho. Ensaios sobre o teatro americano moderno. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2001.

FOSTER, Verna A. White Woods and Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire. Literature-Film Quarterly, v. 43, n. 3, p. 188-201, July 2015. Available on Gale Academic One File: link.gale.com/apps/doc/A427757180/AONE?u=anon~bcefda51&sid=googleScholar&xid=31eae426. Acessed on: 12 Oct. 2023.

GRISSOM, James. Tennessee Williams on Woody Allen. Available on: http://jamesgrissom.blogspot.com/2017/11/tennessee-williams-on-woody-allen.html). Acessed on: 12 Oct. 2023.

SOARES, Marcos César de Paula. Jasmine e a sociabilidade das finanças. Revista Todas as Musas, ano 6, n. 2, jan.-jul. 2015. Available on: https://www.todasasmusas.com.br/12Marcos_Soares.pdf. Acessed on: 12 Oct. 2023.

SZONDI, Peter. Teoria do drama moderno [1880-1950]. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2001.

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Publicado

2024-12-14

Edição

v. 8 n. 2 (2024): Edição especial Tennessee Williams

Seção

Ensaios