{"product_id":"appraising-the-graduate-the-mike-nichols-classic-and-its-impact-in-hollywood-9780786463060","title":"Appraising The Graduate: The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. W. Whitehead\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The popular success in 1967 of \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e was immediate and total; at the time, only \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Music\u003c\/i\u003e were bigger box-office winners. Yet such phenomenal success came at a price: On the film's 40th anniversary, director Mike Nichols claimed that \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e had been \"whipped away\" by a young audience hungry for countercultural documents. This study, the first monograph on \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47580168814743,"sku":"9780786463060","price":2827.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786463060.webp?v=1774911894","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/appraising-the-graduate-the-mike-nichols-classic-and-its-impact-in-hollywood-9780786463060","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}