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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2019]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | "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"-- |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (300 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781609386504 |