Appraising The Graduate - The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood (Paperback)

The popular success in 1967 of The Graduate was immediate and total; at the time, only Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music were bigger box-office winners. Yet such phenomenal success came at a price: On the film's 40th anniversary, director Mike Nichols claimed that The Graduate had been ""whipped away"" by a young audience hungry for countercultural documents. This study, the first monograph on The Graduate, explores how popular and subsequent critical reception deflected a full understanding of the film's complex point of view, which satirizes everything in its path--especially Benjamin and Elaine, its young ""heroes."" The text explores how the film offers not the happy ending some imagine, but a corrosive and satirical vision of humanity.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	J. W. Whitehead
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	221
ISBN-13:	978-0-7864-6306-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > From 1900 > Film & television screenplays Promotions
LSN:	0-7864-6306-6
Barcode:	9780786463060

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