Max Shulman-马克斯舒尔曼.ppt

1、a,1,Max Shulman,林欢畅,a,2,Max Shulman was one of Americas best-known humorists. He was a writer of many talentsHe wrote novels, stories, Broadway plays (百老汇戏剧 ), movie screenplays, and television scripts.,March 14, 1919August 28, 1988,a,3,Writing Style,His writing was often focused on young people, pa

2、rticularly in collegiate setting. A master of the outrageous pun and verbal caricature. Topics range from young love to garbage disposal were grist for Shulmans wit.,a,4,Personal Details,At the University of Minnesota Barefoot Boy With Cheek In the US Army Air Corps The Feather Merchants After retur

3、ning to civilian life Shulman became a full-time writer with a large quantity of novels, short stories, screenplays and television scripts over the next four decades.,a,5,Dobie Gillis,Shulmans collegiate character, Dobie Gillis, was the subject of a series of short stories compiled under the title T

4、he Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which became the basis for the 1953 movieThe Affairs of Dobie Gillis, followed by aCBStelevision series,The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis(1959-1963).,a,6,Dobie Gillis is significant as the first American television program produced for a major network to feature teenagers

5、 as leading characters.,a,7,Dobie Gillis also broke ground by depicting elements of the counterculture, particularly the Beat Generation, primarily embodied in a stereotypical version of the beatnik.,Counterculture: a group in society whose values, ideas, and ways of behaving are completely differen

6、t from those of the rest of society. the Beat Generation: a group of young people in the 1950s who did not accept the traditional values of Western society, especially on matters such as work, sexual relationships, and money. They had a lot of influence on the hippies in the 1960s and 1970s. “beatni

7、k”: a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s who rejected the way of life of ordinary society and showed this by behaving and dressing in a different way from most people.,a,8,The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis who, along with h

8、is best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents- as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls.,a,9,Love is a Fallacy,Taken from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1951). A narrative and comical story with Dobie Gillis as the narrator. In this story, the narrator