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Edna Ferber's Hollywood : American fictions of gender, race, and history
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- Creator
- J.E. Smyth ; foreword by Thomas Schatz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780292793392, 0292793391, 0292725639, 9780292719842, 9780292725638, 0292719841
- OCLC
- on1286806588, ocn560663742, ocn318870278
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Edna Ferber's America and the fictions of history -- The life of an unknown woman: So big, 1923-1953 -- Making believe: Show boat, race, and romance, 1925-1957 -- Marking the boundaries of classical Hollywood's rise and fall: Cimarron, 1928-1961 -- Writing for Hollywood: Come and get it and Saratoga trunk, 1933-1947 -- Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: reconstructing Giant, 1952-1957 -- The new nationalism: Ice palace, 1954-1960
Subjects
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 -- Film adaptations.
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 -- Knowledge -- Motion picture industry.
- Women in the motion picture industry -- United States.
- Historical fiction, American -- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Racism in literature.
- Sex role in literature.