Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at this time.
The latter part of the 20th century saw cinema becoming increasingly significant as an art-form, even while its status as 'art' was still openly contested. This installment in the Bloomsbury Adaptation Histories series discusses a rich and exciting period of cinema history: Hollywood in the latter stages of its golden age, releasing masterpiece adaptations such as It's A Wonderful Life (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Third Man (1949), All About Eve (1950), Rear Window (1954), The Night of the Hunter (1955) and Vertigo (1958).
Introduction
Part I - Looking Forward, Thinking Back: Post-War Western Culture
Chapter 1: Social Comment Films, Film Noir, and Neo-Realism
Chapter 2: Post-War/Cold War: Sci Fi and Horror
Chapter 3: Myths, Fairytales and Legends for a Post-War Age
Part II - Genre, Gender, Identity
Chapter 4: Old Frontiers: The Western
Chapter 5: Melodrama and the Woman's Film
Chapter 6: Taboos and Transformations: Race, Identity and Sexuality in the Post-War Age
Part III - Art Versus Mass Culture: The Uses of Literature in Adaptation and Remaking
Chapter 7: 'Low Art' Genres: Comedies and Musicals
Chapter 8: Literary Adaptation and Social Transformation
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Height:
Width:
Spine:
Weight:0.00