Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Edna Ferber's America and the Fictions of History -- Chapter Two. The Life of an Unknown Woman: So Big, 1923-1953 -- Chapter Three. Making Believe: Show Boat, Race, and Romance,...
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Edna Ferber's America and the Fictions of History -- Chapter Two. The Life of an Unknown Woman: So Big, 1923-1953 -- Chapter Three. Making Believe: Show Boat, Race, and Romance, 1925-1957 -- Chapter Four. Marking the Boundaries of Classical Hollywood's Rise and Fall: Cimarron, 1928-1961 -- Chapter Five. Writing for Hollywood: Come and Get It and Saratoga Trunk, 1933-1947 -- Chapter Six. Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: Reconstructing Giant, 1952-1957 -- Chapter Seven. The New Nationalism: Ice Palace, 1954-1960 -- Notes -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Edna Ferber's America and the fictions of historyThe life of an unknown woman: So big, 1923-1953 -- Making believe: Show boat, race, and romance, 1925-1957 -- Marking the boundaries of classical Hollywood's rise and fall: Cimarron, 1928-1961 -- Writing for Hollywood: Come and get it and Saratoga trunk, 1933-1947 -- Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: reconstructing Giant, 1952-1957 -- The new nationalism: Ice palace, 1954-1960.