Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America: From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place (Modern American Literature : New Approaches, Volume 28) (v. 28)

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 signifier of national identity within Cold War ideology, Jane Hendler provides a detailed, illuminating analysis of how five best-sellers and their film adaptations address a range of intersecting historical issues, including communist containment, corporate culture, family life, and race relations, all of which were integrally linked to gender and key issues of American identity. Each chapter offers compelling, layered readings of the multiple social discourses that fed into the production and reception of these texts that will interest readers in film, gender, and cultural studies.
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Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China

This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine.

The author examines how writers have become cultural entrepreneurs, how state publishing houses are now motivated by commercial incentives, and how “second-channel,” unofficial publishers and distributors both compete and cooperate with official publishing houses in a dual-track, socialist-capitalist economic system. Taken together, these changes demonstrate how economic development and culture interact in a postsocialist society, in contrast to the way they work in the mature capitalist economies of the West. That economic reforms have affected many aspects of Chinese society is well known, but this is the first comprehensive analysis of market influences in the literary field. This book thus offers a fresh perspective on the inner workings of contemporary Chinese society.

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Les roses de Dublin: Roman de Louis Valentin, d'apres la serie televisee de Pierre Rey (Best-sellers) (French Edition)

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Alexandros I (Best Seller) (Spanish Edition)

Nadie puede permanecer indiferente ante la belleza de Alejandro. Ni ante la grandiosidad de su imperio. Que se extendi desde el danubio hasta el Indo.Un hombre considerado un Dios por sus contemporaneos. De ardientes sueos y violentas pasiones,que le consumieron hasta finalmente destruirle. Su vida transcurri en un mundo de leyendas. Esta es su historia.

Customer Review: Los orígenes míticos de la Historia

El primer volumen de la trilogía de Manfredi es una larga y fantásticamente morosa introducción a lo que vendrá; a la epopeya de Alejandro. El autor elabora su historia sabiamente, precisando lo veros...

Customer Review: La historia de Alejandro Magno

Muestra la vida de Alejandro Magno y sus conquistas en forma amena y descriptiva. Realiza una clara pintura de la vida y las costumbres de la época, así como de sus principales figuras. Cuando empiece...
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80 Years of Best Sellers, 1895-1975

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Quien dijo que no se puede (Best Seller (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)

Ahora este éxito se encuentra en un formato más económico.

La popular periodista de Telemundo continuará a ayudar a gente que ha tenido problemas de peso y autoestima.
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Dama Numero Trece / The Number Thirteen Lady (Best Seller) (Spanish Edition)

Customer Review: Una historia fascinante

Las horribles pesadillas sobre un asesinato brutal que se repite noche tras noche es lo que une a Salomon Rulfo, Raquel y al Dr. Ballestero a buscar el origen de este llegando poco a poco a descubrir ...
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