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Women adapting : bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen /

"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 dr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Bethany, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
Colección:Studies in theatre history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.