Post-war Adaptations

1946-59

Professor Imelda Whelehan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-62892-475-6 (ISBN)

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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).

Imelda Whelehan teaches English and Women's Studies at De Montfort University, UK. Her publications include Overloaded (2000) and Modern Feminist Thought (1995).

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Adaptation Histories
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-62892-475-6 / 1628924756
ISBN-13	978-1-62892-475-6 / 9781628924756
Zustand	Neuware