ISBN:
9781137531650
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 235 p. 15 illus. in color)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Culture Study and teaching
;
United States Study and teaching
;
Motion pictures
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Motion pictures.
;
Motion pictures United States
;
Film genres
;
Motion pictures History
;
Film genres.
;
Motion pictures—United States.
;
Motion pictures—History.
;
United States—Study and teaching.
Abstract:
This book features an in-depth analysis of the world’s most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy’s poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, which served as the film’s central location, and its relationship to the movie’s fictional Shawshank Prison. The last chapter examines why this film has remained both a popular and critical success, inspiring diverse fan bases on the Internet and the evolution of the Shawshank Trail, fourteen of the film’s actual site locations that have become a major tourist attraction in central Ohio
Abstract:
Introduction -- .Chapter 1 In the Belly of the Beast: Ohio State Reformatory and The Shawshank Redemption -- .Chapter 2 Interpreting Shawshank -- .Chapter 3 Fandom and the Shawshank Trail -- .Conclusion -- .Works Cited
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-53165-0
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