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The Shawshank experience : tracking the history of the world's favorite movie

Title
The Shawshank experience : tracking the history of the world's favorite movie / Maura Grady, Tony Magistrale.
Author
Grady, Maura.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Additional Authors
Magistrale, Tony.
Description
x, 235 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
Summary
"This book features an in-depth analysis of the world's most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy's poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, which served as the film's central location, and its relationship to the movie's fictional critical success, inspiring diverse fan bases on the Internet and the evolution of the Shawshank Trail, fourteen of the film's actual site locations that have become a major tourist attraction in central Ohio" -- book cover.
Subject
  • Ohio State Reformatory > History
  • Ohio State Reformatory
  • Shawshank redemption (Motion picture)
  • Prison films > History and criticism
  • Motion pictures and literature
  • Prison films
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
Call Number
MFLP (Shawshank redemption) 17-1522
ISBN
  • 1137532130
  • 9781137532138
OCLC
954008600
Author
Grady, Maura.
Title
The Shawshank experience : tracking the history of the world's favorite movie / Maura Grady, Tony Magistrale.
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
Added Author
Magistrale, Tony.
Research Call Number
MFLP (Shawshank redemption) 17-1522
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