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04412aam a2200421 i 4500 001 DA25BA12166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191204010031 008 181016s2019 iaua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018041163 020 $a 1609386493 020 $a 9781609386498 035 $a (OCoLC)1059235977 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d ZLM $d TEU $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1997.85 W585 2019 100 1 $a Wood, Bethany, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Women adapting : $b bringing three serials of the roaring twenties to stage and screen / $c Bethany Wood. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 285 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in theatre history and culture 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "When most of us hear the title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, we think of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's iconic film performance. Few, however, are aware that the movie was based on Anita Loos's 1925 comic novel by the same name. What does it mean, Women Adapting asks, to translate a Jazz Age blockbuster from book to film or stage? What adjustments are necessary and what, if anything, is lost? Bethany Wood examines three well-known stories that debuted as women's magazine serials--Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, and Edna Ferber's Show Boat--and traces how each of these beloved narratives traveled across publishing, theatre, and film through adaptation. She documents the formation of adaptation systems and how they involved women's voices and labor in modern entertainment in ways that have been previously underappreciated. What emerges is a picture of a unique window of time in the early decades of the twentieth century, when women in entertainment held influential positions in production and management. These days, when filmic adaptations seem endless and perhaps even unoriginal, Women Adapting challenges us to rethink the popular platitude, 'The book is always better than the movie.'" -- Publisher's description 650 0 $a Film adaptations $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Motion pictures and literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $x Film adaptations. $x Film adaptations. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x Film adaptations. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wood, Bethany, 1975- author. $t Women adapting $d Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019] $z 9781609386504 $w (DLC) 2018055282 830 0 $a Studies in theatre history and culture 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204030947.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211025221.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA25BA12166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search