Women adapting : bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen / Bethany Wood.
Women adapting : bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen / Bethany Wood.
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
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G 2020/1967
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English
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viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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text
still image
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: adaptation studies and gender -- Story properties, women writers, and the interindustrial 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 --...
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
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Iowa
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[2019]
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"When most of us hear the title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, we think of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's iconic film performance. Few, however, are aware that the movie was based on Anita Loos's 1925 comic novel by the same name. What does it mean, Women Adapting asks, to translate a Jazz Age blockbuster from book to film or stage? What adjustments...
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Women adapting : bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen / Bethany Wood.
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Bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen
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Studies in theatre history and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
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G 2020/1967
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74VKaDr30aVA
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ISBN
9781609386498
DDC
791.0820973
MMS ID
991024298606102626