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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12370868.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.".
- catalog description "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'.".
- catalog extent "ix, 276 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0820452106 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 28.".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern American literature ; vol. 28".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Peter Lang,".
- catalog subject "791.43/6".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Film adaptations.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Film and video adaptations.".
- catalog subject "PN1997.85 .H46 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "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'.".
- catalog title "Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America : From here to eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place / Jane Hendler.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Film adaptations. fast".
- catalog type "text".