Sharp cut

the long version

"In Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process, Steven H. Gale, the world's foremost Pinter scholar, analyzes Pinter's creative process from initial conception to finished film, bringing unparalleled insight to information from the Pinter Archives in the British Library, the Margaret Herrick Library at the Association for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and unpublished materials provided by Pinter himself. To reveal the meaning of all of the film scripts and to explain the cinematic techniques used to express that meaning, Gale makes careful, point-by-point comparisons of each stage in the screenplay's creation - the source material, the adaptations themselves, and the films made from the scripts."--Jacket.