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Women Adapting Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen
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Women Adapting [electronic resource] : Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen / Bethany Wood.
ISBN
1609386507
9781609386504
1609386493
9781609386498
Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource.
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Summary
"In Women Adapting, Bethany Wood examines how the developing preference for adaptations in early twentieth century entertainment promoted interrelationships among fiction, theatre, and film. Weaving together a broad range of archival sources, including personal correspondence, rejected rough drafts, advertisements, films, periodical illustrations, contracts, 'lost' songs, and film stills, Wood deftly explores how early-twentieth-century processes of adaptation forged connections across industries in entertainment. By centering her cross-disciplinary study on issues of gender, Wood considers how inter-industrial systems of adaptation affect both women writers and the female characters they create"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 Film, Theater and Performing Arts
Other formats
Online version: Wood, Bethany, 1975- author. Women adapting Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
Studies in theatre history and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: adaptation studies and gender
Story properties, women writers, and the inter-industrial complex of early twentieth-century adaptation
The age of innocence, 1920: publication and romantic authorship
The age of innocence, 1920/1924: screen adaptation and an author's reputation
The age of innocence, 1926/1928: stage adaptation and multi-vocal authorship
Show boat, 1926/1928: genre and gender in print and on screen
Show boat, 1926/1927: musical genre and the Ziegfeld girl
Show boat, 1927/1929: adapting for sound film
Gentlemen prefer blondes, 1925/1926: fidelity and consumerist femininity in print and on stage
Gentlemen prefer blondes, 1925/1928: faithfully (re)producing farce on screen
Conclusion: modern resonances.
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