Research Catalog

Title

Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America : From here to eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place / Jane Hendler.

Author

Hendler, Jane, 1952-

Publication

New York : P. Lang, ©2001.

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Details

Description

ix, 276 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America looks at some of the most popular novels of the 1950s and examines how their representations of gender identity and conflict dispute and re-imagine the dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity in postwar culture. Working with the claim that gender identity emerged as a primary signifier of national identity within Cold War ideology, Jane Hendler provides a detailed, illuminating analysis of how five best-sellers and their film adaptations address a range of intersecting historical issues, including communist containment, corporate culture, family life, and race relations, all of which were integrally linked to gender and key issues of American identity.
• Each chapter offers compelling, layered readings of the multiple social discourses that fed into the production and reception of these texts that will interest readers in film, gender, and cultural studies."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Modern American literature : new approaches ; v. 28

Uniform Title

Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 28.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American fiction > Film adaptations
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
• American fiction
• Films
• Romans
• Bewerkingen

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Film adaptations
• Adaptations cinématographiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Fifties Best-Seller: Texts, Contexts, and Gender Identity in the Postwar Era -- Masculinity and Male Power in James Jones's 'From Here to Eternity' -- "Madame Butterfly with a Social Conscience": Gender, Race, and National Identity in James Michener's 'Sayonara' -- "Slipping from under Me Like a Loose Saddle": The Degeneration of Dynasty in Edna Ferber's 'Giant' -- Contesting the Feminine Mystique: Gender Performance and Female Identity in Patrick Dennis's 'Auntie Mame' -- "Damned and Banned": Female Sexuality in Grace Metalious's 'Peyton Place'.

ISBN

• 0820452106
• 9780820452104

LCCN

00062967

OCLC

• 44841545
• SCSB-10693321

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library