The Shawshank Experience
Tracking the History of the World's Favorite Movie
This book features an in-depth analysis of the world's most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy's poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, which served as the film's central location, and its relationship to the movie's fictional Shawshank Prison. The last chapter examines why this film has remained both a…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Grady, Maura
- ISBN: 978-1-137-53165-0
- EAN: 9781137531650
- Produktnummer: 21818087
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'202 KB
Über den Autor
Maura Grady is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Composition program at Ashland University, USA. She is the author of a number of articles and book chapters on Film and Television History, Fandom Studies, and Gender Studies. Tony Magistrale is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of Hollywood's Stephen King and editor of The Films of Stephen King.
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