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Imelda Whelehan, Deborah Cartmell - Postwar Hollywood Adaptations, Inbunden

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Postwar Hollywood Adaptations

Adapting the Middlebrow, 1946-1959

Av Imelda Whelehan, Deborah Cartmell

Del i serien Bloomsbury Adaptation Histories

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Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at popular fiction adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and cultural tastes in the years after the Second World War.This instalment in the Bloomsbury Adaptation Histories series discusses a rich and exciting period of US history and shatters the myth that only bad books make good films. Exploring films including It's A Wonderful Life (1946), Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House (1948), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), The Searchers, (1956), Written on the Wind (1956), Peyton Place (1957) and The Fly (1958), it argues that middlebrow fiction and film thrived in a symbiotic relationship, exploring pressing social issues of the day and articulating the experience of living in a fast-changing world riven by political, social and material uncertainties.
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Imelda Whelehan is Professor Emerita at the University of Western Australia. She has published widely on feminism, adaptation studies and popular culture. Her works include Adaptations: Critical and Primary Sources (2022, co-edited with Deborah Cartmell), Screen Adaptation (2010, with Deborah Cartmell), The Feminist Bestseller (2005), Overloaded (2000), and Modern Feminist Thought (1995). From 2008 to 2024 she was co-editor of the Oxford journal, Adaptation.

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Focusing on Hollywood adaptations of the 1940s and 1950s, prominent film scholar Imelda Whelehan incisively demonstrates the ability of adaptation studies to offer fresh and often brilliant readings of classic American cinema, as she rigorously opens up canonical films through the lens of the literature that is their critical foundation.

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