@article{ART001131161},
author={Seung Jin Baek},
title={To Kill Blanche},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2005},
volume={18},
number={2},
pages={119-136}
TY - JOUR
AU - Seung Jin Baek
TI - To Kill Blanche
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2005
VL - 18
IS - 2
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 119
EP - 136
SN - 1226-3397
AB - The three film directors, Eliza Kazan, John Erman and Glenn Jordan try to answer the question “How to kill Blanche well?” in the three film versions based on Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. In filming Williams’s play to be the source of the Hollywood adult art film, Kazan had to change the original to pass the censorship of the Catholic Legion of Decency as well as the Production Code of Administration. So Kazan’s 1951 film adopts several symbols and expressionistic mode to describe the scenes which are against the traditional moral principles. On the other hand, Erman’s 1984 and Jordan's 1995 films realistically describe Williams's text without the censorship which troubled Kazan.
In the text and Kazan’s film, a Mexican flower vendor for the dead appears as an apparition in Blanche's imagination rather than a real character. In Erman’s and Jordan’s films, however, the Mexican vendor is treated as a real character. In the scene in which Blanche kisses a newspaper boy, the three directors try new interpretation which is against Williams's idea. The three directors' anguish to answer the question “How to kill Blanche well?” makes the streetcar named desire run still.
KW - A Streetcar Named Desire;Tennessee Williams;Elia Kazan;John Erman;Glenn Jordan
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Seung Jin Baek. (2005). To Kill Blanche. Journal of Modern English Drama, 18(2), 119-136.
Seung Jin Baek. 2005, "To Kill Blanche", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.18, no.2 pp.119-136.
Seung Jin Baek "To Kill Blanche" Journal of Modern English Drama 18.2 pp.119-136 (2005) : 119.
Seung Jin Baek. To Kill Blanche. 2005; 18(2), 119-136.
Seung Jin Baek. "To Kill Blanche" Journal of Modern English Drama 18, no.2 (2005) : 119-136.
Seung Jin Baek. To Kill Blanche. Journal of Modern English Drama, 18(2), 119-136.
Seung Jin Baek. To Kill Blanche. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2005; 18(2) 119-136.
Seung Jin Baek. To Kill Blanche. 2005; 18(2), 119-136.
Seung Jin Baek. "To Kill Blanche" Journal of Modern English Drama 18, no.2 (2005) : 119-136.
