Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Adaptation Studies and Gender
Chapter 1. Story Properties, Women Writers, and the Interindustrial Complex of Early Twentieth-Century Adaptation
Chapter 2. The Age of Innocence, 1920: Publication and Romantic Authorship
Chapter 3. The Age of Innocence, 1920–1924: Screen Adaptation and an Author's Reputation
Chapter 4. The Age of Innocence, 1926–1928: Stage Adaptation and Multivocal Authorship
Chapter 5. Show Boat, 1926–1928: Genre and Gender in Print and on Screen
Chapter 6. Show Boat, 1926–1927: Musical Genre and the Ziegfeld Girl
Chapter 7. Show Boat, 1927–1929: Adapting for Sound Film
Chapter 8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1925–1926: Fidelity and Consumerist Femininity in Print and on Stage
Chapter 9. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1925–1928: Faithfully (Re)producing Farce on Screen
Conclusion. Modern Resonances
Notes
Bibliography
Index