Arthur Miller’s America on Screen

No one has quite captured the American underbelly and the American Dream quite like Arthur Miller. Miller was one of its chief critics through the lens of social responsibility, guilt and the pitfalls of individualism. This is Miller’s Americana, an America in which desire trumped all and tragedy inevitably followed.
With a new National Theatre Live production of ‘All My Sons’, Théo Rogier from the cinema education team proposes an in-depth analysis of the American playwright and how his tragedies have translated from stage to screen, including clips from the original film version of ‘All My Sons’ (1948) starring Burt Lancaster and Nicholas Hytner’s film of ‘The Crucible’ (1996) with Daniel Day-Lewis.
Théo will also explore Miller’s work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, including his original screenplay ‘The Misfits’ (1961), which starred his wife Marilyn Monroe and also for TV with ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1985) starring Dustin Hoffman.