%0 Journal Article
%T Tennessee Williams¡¯s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen
%A Ta£¿na Tuhkunen
%J Transatlantica : Revue d'¨¦tudes Am¨¦ricaines
%D 2012
%I Association fran?aise d'¨¦tudes am¨¦ricaines
%X This study explores the representation of the American South in the film adaptations of five plays by the Mississippi-born playwright, Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958), Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) and The Night of the Iguana (John Huston, 1964). The article focuses on the disrespectful representations of the paradigmatic Southern garden which remains dynamic while maintaining some of its classic or biblical features. By relying on the conception of the pastoral garden as theorized by Leo Marx in The Machine in the Garden (1964), the author pays specific attention to the way mid-xxth century cinema kept recreating Williams¡¯s Southern gardens as a corrupted and dehumanized space pierced through by disquieting shrieks. Cette ¨¦tude se penche sur la repr¨¦sentation du Sud ¨¦tats-unien dans l¡¯adaptation cin¨¦matographique de cinq pi¨¨ces du dramaturge am¨¦ricain originaire du Mississippi, Tennessee Williams: Un tramway nomm¨¦ d¨¦sir (Elia Kazan, 1951), La poup¨¦e de chair (Elia Kazan, 1956), La chatte sur un toit br lant (Richard Brooks, 1958), Soudain l¡¯¨¦t¨¦ dernier (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959), et La nuit de l¡¯iguane (John Huston, 1964). L¡¯article met en ¨¦vidence, chez Williams, la repr¨¦sentation irr¨¦v¨¦rencieuse du paradigmatique jardin sudiste qui, s¡¯il conserve certains de ses attributs classiques et bibliques, ne s¡¯av¨¨re pas moins dynamique. En s¡¯appuyant sur la conception du jardin pastoral th¨¦oris¨¦ par Leo Marx dans The Machine in the Garden (1964), l¡¯auteur s¡¯attarde sur la fa on dont le cin¨¦ma du milieu du xxe si¨¨cle cherchait ¨¤ recr¨¦er le jardin williamsien comme un lieu corrompu et d¨¦shumanis¨¦, travers¨¦ de cris inqui¨¦tants.
%K Tennessee Williams
%K corrupted garden
%K Southern gardens
%K animal allegories
%K Southern Belles
%K cinema of the South
%K sights and sounds.
%U http://transatlantica.revues.org/5406