essays on American film and television Whitt, Jan. creator text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2013 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource (275 pages). Introduction -- The influence of literature on film and television. Shutter Island: Martin Scorsese's allegory of despair -- When fiction becomes reality: Authorial voice in the door in the floor, secret window, and swimming pool -- The "very simplicity of the thing": Edgar Allan Poe, Jessica B. Fletcher, and Murder, she wrote -- Changing faces: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and films of the 1980s -- Displaced people and the frailty of words: communication in Ordinary people, On golden pond, and Terms of endearment -- Portrayals of class, race, and sexual orientation. Working man blues: images of the cowboy in American film -- From the wilderness into the closet: Brokeback Mountain and the lost American dream -- What happened to Celie and Idgie?: "apparitional lesbians" in American film -- Litigating the past: portrayals of the Japanese in American film -- Portrayals of class, race, and ethnicity. Fatherhood, fidelity, and friendship: Owen Thoreau Jr. and men of a certain age -- Frank's place: coming home to a place we'd never been before -- "American life is rich in lunacy": the unsettling social commentary of The Beverly hillbillies -- Grits and yokels aplenty: depictions of southerners on prime-time television -- Portrayals of women in film and television. From Great expectations to The bachelor: the jilted woman in literature and popular culture -- The lady is (still) a tramp: prime-time portrayals of women who love sex -- "This moment of June": Laura Brown, Clarissa Vaughn, Virginia Woolf, and The hours. Jan Whitt. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Motion pictures Social aspects United States Television programs Social aspects United States Motion pictures and literature United States PN1995.9.S6 W52 2013eb 791.430973 Whitt, Jan. New York : Peter Lang, [2013] xii, 261 pages ; 24 cm. (DLC) 2013003322 9781453910467 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10819414 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10819414 CaPaEBR 130311 ebr10819414 eng