Index advertising, 21–22, 29 advice columns, 22 “After Holbein” (Wharton), 24 Age of Innocence, The (movie): (1924), 65, 85, 88–89; (1934), 93–96, 160; (1993), 122–32, 154–56, 192n.12 Age of Innocence, The (Wharton), 10, 41–42, 69, 74; Broadway production, 93–94; narrative strategy in, 125–30 Akins, Zöe, 98 Alexander, Ruth M., 13 “All Souls” (Wharton), 30 alternative worlds, 150–54 Amalasuntha (Twilight Sleep), 49, 50, 67 American Cinema/American Culture (Belton ), 11 American Women in the Progressive Era (Schneider and Schneider), 13–14 Ammons, Elizabeth, 82, 192n.12 Anderson, Doris, 90 Ansley, Christine (“Joy in the House”), 30, 32 anti-Semitism, 69, 79–82, 188n.2. See also Jewish characters; Jewish moviemakers Archer, Dallas (Age of Innocence), 41, 74, 94–95 Archer, Newland (Age of Innocence): in novel, 41, 74, 94–95, 166; in movie, 122, 124, 154–56, 193n.18 Ardwin, Tommy (Twilight Sleep), 50–52, 56 Ashby, Charlotte (“Pomegranate Seed”), 30–31, 32 Atlantic Monthly, 169 “Atrophy” (Wharton), 30 audience, xiii, 8–10, 28–29, 64 Austen, Jane, 159, 160 “Autre Temps” (Wharton), 24 Backward Glance, A (Wharton), 11, 171 Bara, Theda, 48, 56, 60 Barbas, Samantha, 2 Barnes, Margaret Ayer, 93–94 Barrymore, Katherine Harris, 85 Bart, Lily (House of Mirth): in novel, 9, 14, 33, 41–42, 68, 82, 132, 166, 171; in movie (2000), 132–41, 156–59 Bauer, Dale M., 68, 72, 73 Beaufort, Fanny (Age of Innocence), 41–42 Beaufort, Julius (Age of Innocence), 42, 69 Belivet, Therese (Price of Salt), 166 Belknap, Troy (“Marne”) Belmont, Mrs. O. H. P., 169 Belton, John, 11 Bennett, Constance, 98 Benstock, Shari, xi–xii, 24, 67, 74, 132, 133 Berman, Pandro, 93 Berry, Walter, xi bicycles, 13 Blackall, Jean Frantz, 8 Blakemore, Richard, 150 Boles, John, 94 Book-of-the-Month Club, 37 books, as consumer items, 37 Botshon, Lisa, 23, 31 “Bottle of Perrier, A” (Wharton), 24 Bow, Clara, 48, 56, 63 Boyne, Martin (Children): in novel, 57–65, 67, 90; in movie Children (1990), 112–18, 152–53; in Marriage Playground, 91–92 Brent, George, 99 Brewster, Ben, 27 214 Index Brian, Mary, 90 Bryan, Jane, 99 Cahir, Linda Costanzo, 90, 92–93, 102, 121 camerawork, 101, 131, 135, 150, 155–56; alternating background and foreground, 100–101; Steadicam, 115–16 Canfield, Dorothy, 24, 37 Capra, Frank, 96 celebrity worship, 77–78 characterization: female outsiders, 41–42; females, 1950s, 163; Jewish characters, 69, 82–83; movie-age characters, 48–51; older men, 20–21; working-class women , 23–24; writers as screen characters, 110–11 “Charity at the Window: Narrative Technique in Edith Wharton’s Summer” (Blackall), 8 charity girls, 14 Charlotte Temple, 97 Charm Incorporated (Wharton), 33–37, 39, 67, 144 children, effects of cinema on, 57–58, 61, 64 Children, The (Wharton), xi, xiii, 39, 40, 48–49, 57–65, 67, 69, 82; criticism of, 72; film rights to, 89–90; movie (1990), 112–18, 152; nightmare vision in, 61–65. See also Marriage Playground, The Churchwell, Sarah, 31, 33 cinema: children, devastating effects on, 57–58, 61, 64; as consumer product, 9, 11, 32–33; as disease, 57–58; as disorienting, 4, 6, 9–10; elaborate sets, 27; film adaptations , 159–62, 167–68; as gendered threat to status quo, 29–30; Jewish moviemakers , 69–72, 79–85; as mechanical terror, 38–40, 62–65, 72, 117, 143–44, 149; as mirror of text, 149–50; non-Jewish moviemakers, 80–81; as siren song, 28–29, 54, 57, 69–70; Wharton’s affinity with, 147–49; Wharton’s dislike of, xi–xii, 1–2, 107–8, 143; working class, association with, 4–5, 28; writers’ views of, 143–47. See also genres “Cinema and the Postmodern Condition” (Friedberg), 10–11 classical allusions, 54–55 Clayburn, Mrs. (“All Souls”), 30 Cleopatra, 56 Cochran, David, 164–65, 198–99n.24 Cocks, Jay, 122–23 collaborative arts, 145 Colonial Theater (Pittsfield, Mass.), 19– 20 “Coming Home” (Wharton), 26–28 confession films, 98 consumers, women as, 12–15, 21–22, 66– 67; loss of identity, 32–33; Wharton as, 25–26 Cook, David A., 87 Corman, Roger, 165 Cornell, Katharine, 93 Corrigan, Timothy, 147, 160, 168 Cosmopolitan, 33–34, 85, 144 Crack-Up, The (Fitzgerald), 146–47 Crisp, Donald, 99 Crispin, Lady Ulrica (Reef), 43–44 Cromwell, John, 96 Cunningham, Michael, 110 Custom of the Country, The (Wharton), 10, 42, 122, 170 Dark Victory, 99 Darrow, George (Reef), 9–10, 42–47, 49–50, 67, 122 Davies...