Harold Pinter and Elizabeth Bowen: men and women at war

Laurel Forster

doi:10.1080/01439685.2020.1778317

Harold Pinter and Elizabeth Bowen: men and women at war

Laurel Forster

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Abstract

Using the Harold Pinter Collection held at the British Library, this article investigates Harold Pinter’s 1989 screenplay and television film of Elizabeth Bowen’s 1949 novel The Heat of the Day. It argues for the detailed and direct ways in which Pinter used Bowen’s language and dialogue to convey the complexities of wartime London. However, it also suggests that Pinter’s adaptation deliberately excludes elements of women’s experiences of the Second World War in favour of a more masculinised presentation of war and the spy genre.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	551-567
Number of pages	17
Journal	Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Volume	40
Issue number	3
Early online date	22 Jun 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2020.1778317
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2020

Keywords

Harold Pinter
Elizabeth Bowen
modernist novel
wartime novel
adaptation
women and the Second World War
spy genre

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television on 22/06/2020, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01439685.2020.1778317.
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