{"product_id":"9781616207663","title":"Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How \"The Graduate\" Became the Touchstone of a Generation","description":"\u003cb\u003eMrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e premiered in December 1967, its filmmakers had only modest expectations for what seemed to be a small, sexy art-house comedy adapted from an obscure first novel by an eccentric twenty-four-year-old. There was little indication that this offbeat story—a young man just out of college has an affair with one of his parents’ friends and then runs off with her daughter—would turn out to be a monster hit, with an extended run in theaters and seven Academy Award nominations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The film catapulted an unknown actor, Dustin Hoffman, to stardom with a role that is now permanently engraved in our collective memory. While turning the word \u003ci\u003eplastics\u003c\/i\u003e into shorthand for soulless work and a corporate, consumer culture, \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e sparked a national debate about what was starting to be called “the generation gap.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now, in time for this iconic film’s fiftieth birthday, author Beverly Gray offers up a smart close reading of the film itself as well as vivid, never-before-revealed details from behind the scenes of the production—including all the drama and decision-making of the cast and crew. For movie buffs and pop culture fanatics, \u003ci\u003eSeduced by Mrs. Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e brings to light \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e’s huge influence on the future of filmmaking. And it explores how this unconventional movie rocked the late-sixties world, both reflecting and changing the era’s views of sex, work, and marriage.","brand":"Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148317835504,"sku":"9781616207663","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616207663_p0.jpg?v=1769904318","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616207663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}