KMID : 0385320130240010039
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society 2013 Volume.24 No. 1 p.39 ~ p.49
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Analytical Interpretation of Drama and Cinema ¡®Cat on a Hot Tin Roof¡¯ Based on The Original Play by Tennessee Williams
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Kim E-Yong
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Abstract
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Four different version of ¡°Cat on a Hot Tin Roof¡± (three stage drama and one movie) based on original play by Tennessee Williams are analyzed. Two versions (¡°Cat, No. 1¡± and ¡°1974 Version¡±) were written solely by Williams himself, but other versions (¡°Cat, Broadway Version¡± and ¡°Cinema¡±) were changed to very different drama in point of view of drama¡¯s main theme. In ¡°Cat No. 1¡± version the playwright tried to reveal the theme of homosexuality in his play and he also pretend to assert that the homosexuality was a kind of pure and real lifestyle of humankind. And in his play, he wanted to declare that homophobia was a kind of malignant mendacity. The author speculated that Williams had another purpose of ¡°coming out¡± of his own homosexual life in public. But by Elia Kazan and Richard Brooks, theme of homosexuality was diluted or/and deleted during stage presentation and screenwriting. Furthermore, cinema ¡°Cat on a Hot Tin Roof¡± became almost completely different drama from Williams¡¯ original play in a viewpoint of homosexuality theme. Williams called the play ¡°Cat¡± tragedy, but cinema ¡°Cat¡± is happy ending drama. Thus they are not same drama even though they have same title, are they?
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KEYWORD
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Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, Greed, Mendacity, Death
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