The popular success in 1967 of The Graduate was immediate and total; at the time, only Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music were bigger box-office winners. Yet such phenomenal success came at a price: On the film's 40th anniversary, director Mike Nichols claimed that The Graduate had been "whipped away" by a young audience hungry for countercultural documents. This study, the first monograph on The Graduate, explores how popular and subsequent critical reception deflected a full understanding of the film's complex point of view, which satirizes...
The popular success in 1967 of The Graduate was immediate and total; at the time, only Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music ...
"This first full-career retrospective study of Nichols' force in the American arts begins with his filmmaking in satirical comedy and Broadway theatre and devotes chapters to each of his 20 feature films. Nichols' permanent achievements are his critique of the ways in which culture constructs conformity and his tempered optimism about individuals' liberation by transformative awakening"--
"This first full-career retrospective study of Nichols' force in the American arts begins with his filmmaking in satirical comedy and Broadway theatre...
