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Seduced by Mrs. Robinson
Beverly Gray
其他書名
How "The Graduate" Became the Touchstone of a Generation
出版
Algonquin Books
, 2017-11-07
主題
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Social Science / Popular Culture
Art / Film & Video
ISBN
1616206160
9781616206161
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qF48DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
*An Amazon Best Book of the Month*
“[Gray] writes smartly and insightfully . . . The book as a whole offers a fascinating look at how this movie tells a timeless story.” —
The Washington Post
Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?
When
The Graduate
premiered in December 1967, its filmmakers had only modest expectations for what seemed to be a small, sexy art-house comedy adapted from an obscure first novel by an eccentric twenty-four-year-old. There was little indication that this offbeat story—a young man just out of college has an affair with one of his parents’ friends and then runs off with her daughter—would turn out to be a monster hit, with an extended run in theaters and seven Academy Award nominations.
The film catapulted an unknown actor, Dustin Hoffman, to stardom with a role that is now permanently engraved in our collective memory. While turning the word
plastics
into shorthand for soulless work and a corporate, consumer culture,
The Graduate
sparked a national debate about what was starting to be called “the generation gap.”
Now, in time for this iconic film’s fiftieth birthday, author Beverly Gray offers up a smart close reading of the film itself as well as vivid, never-before-revealed details from behind the scenes of the production—including all the drama and decision-making of the cast and crew. For movie buffs and pop culture fanatics,
Seduced by Mrs. Robinson
brings to light
The Graduate
’s huge influence on the future of filmmaking. And it explores how this unconventional movie rocked the late-sixties world, both reflecting and changing the era’s views of sex, work, and marriage.