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The Shawshank experience : tracking the history of the world's favorite movie / Maura Grady, Tony Magistrale.
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1997.S5397 G72 2016 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Magistrale, Tony
- Description
- x, 235 pages : photographs, some in 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
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- In the belly of the beast : Ohio State Reformatory and The Shawshank Redemption -- Interpreting Shawshank -- Fandom and the Shawshank trail (research contributions by Richard Robertson, Jr.).
- ISBN
- 1137532130
- 9781137532138
- OCLC
- 954008600
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library