T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Roy Cohn, Tony Kushner, Irony
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Td 301- angels in america part 2: millennium approaches- 2. 2b. Ten years later, hbo miniseries comes out in 2004: gets most emmy awards in history of the emmis, golden globe awards. We see that the story is lasting: 10 years after broadway, 20 years after epidemic the story is still so lasting, tony kushner wrote the tv script. Not a professional tv scripter, just the play wright. Advantage of using a camera: fil techniques theatricalism i. e. camera swooping, film edits, dream sequence, etc. Fictional characters (*****for the test, make sure you know each character"s religion and background: prior walter, louis ironson, harper pitt - mormon, joe pitt, belize. Based on actual people: roy cohn. Directly responsible for verdict in rosenberg case: ethel rosenberg. During cold war, red scare, she, and her husband were accused of espionage and executed for being associated with soviet union.
