Women Adapting : Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen /

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"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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Main Author: Wood, Bethany, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Motion pictures and literature.
Film adaptations.
American fiction > Film adaptations.
PERFORMING ARTS > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Adaptations cinematographiques.
Cinema et litterature.
Adaptations cinematographiques > Histoire et critique.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > Film adaptations.
American fiction > Women authors > Film adaptations.
Film adaptations > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (300 pages).
ISBN:9781609386504

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