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Author Wood, Bethany, 1975- author.

Title Women adapting : bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen / Bethany Wood
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 285 pages)
Series Studies in theatre history and culture
Studies in theatre history and culture.
Contents Introduction: adaptation studies and gender -- Story properties, women writers, and the inter-industrial complex of early twentieth-century adaptation -- The age of innocence, 1920: publication and romantic authorship -- The age of innocence, 1920/1924: screen adaptation and an author's reputation -- The age of innocence, 1926/1928: stage adaptation and multi-vocal authorship -- Show boat, 1926/1928: genre and gender in print and on screen -- Show boat, 1926/1927: musical genre and the Ziegfeld girl -- Show boat, 1927/1929: adapting for sound film -- Gentlemen prefer blondes, 1925/1926: fidelity and consumerist femininity in print and on stage -- Gentlemen prefer blondes, 1925/1928: faithfully (re)producing farce on screen -- Conclusion: modern resonances
Summary "In Women Adapting, Bethany Wood examines how the developing preference for adaptations in early twentieth century entertainment promoted interrelationships among fiction, theatre, and film. Weaving together a broad range of archival sources, including personal correspondence, rejected rough drafts, advertisements, films, periodical illustrations, contracts, 'lost' songs, and film stills, Wood deftly explores how early-twentieth-century processes of adaptation forged connections across industries in entertainment. By centering her cross-disciplinary study on issues of gender, Wood considers how inter-industrial systems of adaptation affect both women writers and the female characters they create"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 14, 2019)
Subject Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Motion pictures and literature.
American fiction -- Women authors -- Film adaptations
American fiction -- 20th century -- Film adaptations
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
American fiction -- Film adaptations
Film adaptations
Motion pictures and literature
Women and literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018055282
ISBN 9781609386504
1609386507