Art and Censorship: Elia Kazan’s Film A Streetcar Named Desire Compared to Tennessee Williams’s Play

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Proseminar Tennessee Williams, language: English, abstract: This paper compares Tennessee Williams’s text with Elia Kazan’s movie version from 1951 as well as with the so-called ‘restored version’ from 1993 which contains additional scenes that had been removed by the censors in the 1951 version. It examines the differences between text and film, considering changes which were made for merely artistic respectively medium-typical reasons, as well as changes which were made due to censorship, and it analyses which effects those changes had.