Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Film Science, Lake Forest College, language: English, abstract: A study of theater adapted to film post World War II, focusing on the 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. There is a certain kind of ephemeral magic that only exists inside the theater. Audience members shift in their seat in anticipation, the sounds of actors shuffling backstage seeps from under the curtain, the lights dim, the doors close, and all of the sudden the outside world fades away. Reality seems to shift and take new shape as the curtain rises and...