Title Edna Ferber's Hollywood : American fictions of gender, race, and history / J.E. Smyth ; foreword by Thomas Schatz

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations Series Texas film and media studies series Texas film and media studies series. Contents 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 Summary Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century--the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt her novels, creating some of the most memorable films of the studio era--among them Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. Her historical fiction resonated with Hollywood's interest in prestigious historical filmmaking aimed principally, but not exclusively, at female audiences. In Edna Ferber's Hollywood, J.E. Smyth explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood's Ferber franchise. Smyth tracks Ferber's working relationships with Samuel Goldwyn, Leland Hayward, George Stevens, and James Dean; her landmark contract negotiations with Warner Bros.; and the controversies surrounding Giant's critique of Jim-Crow Texas. But Edna Ferber's Hollywood is also the study of the historical vision of an American outsider--a woman, a Jew, a novelist with few literary pretensions, an unashamed middlebrow who challenged the prescribed boundaries among gender, race, history, and fiction. In a masterful film and literary history, Smyth explores how Ferber's work helped shape Hollywood's attitude toward the American past Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record PSP Prose Awards (won), 2009 Subject Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 -- Film adaptations Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 -- Knowledge -- Motion picture industry SUBJECT Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 fast Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. Historical fiction, American Motion pictures Racism in literature Sex role in literature Women in the motion picture industry Motion picture industry United States Genre/Form Film adaptations History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780292793392 0292793391 9780292725638 0292725639

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