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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By Gefter, Philip
- ISBN
- 9781635579628
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
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Starred Review on February 1, 2024 | Making Movies With Liz Taylor
Gefter (Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe) skillfully assesses how Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? became the 1966 Mike Nichols film that challenged many white, middle-class, Western cultural assumptions of the mid-20th century. The film is about family, deception, marriage, and loyalty, and audiences often had trouble distinguishing between the marital woes (different though they were) of the pedestrian...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
