Appraising the Graduate: The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood
J.W. Whitehead
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. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Year:
2010
Publisher:
McFarland & Company
Language:
english
Pages:
221
ISBN 10:
0786463066
ISBN 13:
9780786463060
ISBN:
2010046317
File:
PDF, 10.48 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010