The history boys : the film
Bennett, Alan, 1934-2006
Book
Total copies: 2
A bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher and a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. Bennett's screenplay provokes questions about history and how you teach it, and about education and its purpose. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.Fox Searchlight Pictures, DNA and the BBC have joined forces to bring the National Theatre's award-winning production of The History Boys to the big screen, directed by Nicholas Hytner from a script adapted for the screen by Alan Bennett.
Main title:
The history boys : the film / Alan Bennett & Nicholas Hytner ; adapted from the original stage play by Alan Bennett.
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2006.
Collation:
xxvi, 107 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ports. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780571231737 (hbk)
Dewey class:
791.4372
LC class:
PN1997
Language:
English
BRN:
278704