Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America : From here to eternity, Sayonara, Giant,...
Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America : From here to eternity, Sayonara, Giant,...
Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America : From here to eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place / Jane Hendler.
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New York : P. Lang, c2001.
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N791.436/18
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English
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ix, 276 p. ; 23 cm.
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1. The Fifties Best-Seller: Texts, Contexts, and Gender Identity in the Postwar Era -- 2. Masculinity and Male Power in James Jones's From Here to Eternity -- 3. "Madame Butterfly with a Social Conscience": Gender, Race, and National Identity in James Michener's Sayonara -- 4. "Slipping from under M...
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New York : P. Lang, c2001.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2001.
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"Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America looks at some of the most popular novels of the 1950s and examines how their representations of gender identity and conflict dispute and re-imagine the dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity in postwar culture. Working with the claim that gender identity emerged as a primary...
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Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America : From here to eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place / Jane Hendler.
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Modern American literature : new approaches ; vol. 28.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.
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c2001.
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N791.436/18
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74Vv4XJmWdRZ
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0820452106 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820452104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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791.436
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991015495009702626
