LEADER 04353nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910813013003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79339-1 024 7 $a10.7560/719842 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006530 035 $a(OCoLC)560663742 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10351554 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337026 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929296 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337026 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287164 035 $a(PQKB)11717895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443441 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2410 035 $a(DE-B1597)587161 035 $a(OCoLC)1286806588 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292793392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30788028 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30788028 035 $a(dli)HEB33649 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000914 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006530 100 $a20090521d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEdna Ferber's Hollywood $eAmerican fictions of gender, race, and history /$fJ. E. Smyth ; foreword by Thomas Schatz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 225 1 $aTexas film and media studies series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71984-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEdna 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. 330 $aEdna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century?the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt her novels, creating some of the most memorable films of the studio era?among them Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. Her historical fiction resonated with Hollywood's interest in prestigious historical filmmaking aimed principally, but not exclusively, at female audiences. In Edna Ferber's Hollywood, J. E. Smyth explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood's Ferber franchise. Smyth tracks Ferber's working relationships with Samuel Goldwyn, Leland Hayward, George Stevens, and James Dean; her landmark contract negotiations with Warner Bros.; and the controversies surrounding Giant's critique of Jim-Crow Texas. But Edna Ferber's Hollywood is also the study of the historical vision of an American outsider?a woman, a Jew, a novelist with few literary pretensions, an unashamed middlebrow who challenged the prescribed boundaries among gender, race, history, and fiction. In a masterful film and literary history, Smyth explores how Ferber's work helped shape Hollywood's attitude toward the American past. 410 0$aTexas film and media studies series. 606 $aWomen in the motion picture industry$zUnited States 606 $aHistorical fiction, American$vTelevision adaptations 606 $aHistorical fiction, American$vFilm adaptations 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRacism in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 615 0$aWomen in the motion picture industry 615 0$aHistorical fiction, American 615 0$aHistorical fiction, American 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aRacism in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a813/.52 700 $aSmyth$b J. E.$f1977-$01621759 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813013003321 996 $aEdna Ferber's Hollywood$93955232 997 $aUNINA