Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History (Texas Film and Media Studies)

Edna 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. Edna 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. J.e. Smyth ; Foreword By Thomas Schatz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

edna 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.

Frontmatter Foreword by Thomas Schatz (page vii) Acknowledgments (page xiii) 1. Edna Ferber's America and the Fictions of History (page 3) 2. The Life of an Unknown Woman: So Big, 1923-1953 (page 31) 3. Making Believe: Show Boat, Race, and Romance, 1925-1957 (page 71) 4. Marking the Boundaries of Classical Hollywood's Rise and Fall: Cimarron, 1928-1961 (page 113) 5. Writing for Hollywood: Come and Get It and Saratoga Trunk, 1933-1947 (page 153) 6. Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: Reconstructing Giant, 1952-1957 (page 191) 7. The New Nationalism: Ice Palace, 1954-1960 (page 229) Notes (page 267) Selected Bibliography (page 305) Index (page 325) Edna 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 Cimarron: marking the boundaries of classical Hollywood's rise and fall, 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 in Ice palace, 1954-1960. 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. It explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood's Ferber franchise. A history of the remarkable partnership forged between the author of such classics as Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant and the Hollywood moguls who brought her often controversial messages to the silver screen.