{"product_id":"9780786463060","title":"Appraising The Graduate","description":"The popular success in 1967 of The Graduate was immediate and total; at the time, only Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music were bigger box-office winners. Yet such phenomenal success came at a price: On the film's 40th anniversary, director Mike Nichols claimed that The Graduate had been \"\"whipped away\"\" by a young audience hungry for countercultural documents. This study, the first monograph on The Graduate, 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.","brand":"J.W. Whitehead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45852044198206,"sku":"9780786463060","price":882.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780786463060_9a38ff06-7bc5-4aa6-8755-94753a91fba6.jpg?v=1707324873","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780786463060","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}