Edith Wharton (18621937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them as an enemy of the imagination. Yet her fiction often referenced film and popular Hollywood culture, and she even sold the rights to several of her novels to Hollywood studios."Edith Wharton on Film" explores these seeming contradictions and examines the relationships among Wharton s writings, the popular culture in which she published them, and the subsequent film adaptations of her work (three from...
Edith Wharton (18621937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that s...
Ritual occasions in the movies can bring us to laughter and tears and hope and regret; the chords they strike suggest the complex intersection between American movies and our lives. Major ritual occasions of weddings, baptisms, bar mitzvahs, funerals, graduations, and birthday parties appear in hundreds of popular films produced by Hollywood throughout the 20th century. This study suggests that these stock scenes are more significant to American film than we might have thought.
Ritual occasions in the movies can bring us to laughter and tears and hope and regret; the chords they strike suggest the complex intersection between...
This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative, begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1848) and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and relying on such diverse works as Frankenstein, Peyton Place, Beloved, and I Love Lucy, the book chronicles how pregnancy evolves from a conventional plot device into a fully developed theme.
This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative, begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter ...
