TY - BOOK ID - 14228358 TI - The Shawshank Experience : Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie AU - Grady, Maura. AU - Magistrale, Tony. PY - 2016 SN - 1137532130 1137531657 PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - United States KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures. KW - Film genres. KW - Cultural and Media Studies. KW - American Cinema. KW - Film History. KW - American Culture. KW - Film Theory. KW - Genre. KW - Study and teaching. KW - United States. KW - History. KW - Experience. KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Reality KW - Pragmatism KW - Motion pictures-United States. KW - Motion pictures-History. KW - United States-Study and teaching. KW - American Cinema and TV. KW - Genre films KW - Genres, Film KW - Motion picture genres KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Plots, themes, etc. KW - History and criticism KW - Motion pictures—United States. KW - Motion pictures—History. KW - United States—Study and teaching. KW - Ohio State Reformatory KW - Ohio State Reformatory. KW - Shawshank redemption (Motion picture) KW - Ohio. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14228358 AB - 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. ER -