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Appraising The Graduate: The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood

Appraising The Graduate: The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood

Whitehead, J. W.

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0786463066
ISBN13: 9780786463060
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jan 5 2011
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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