From Book to Film: Mass Appeals

Abstract

LESTER ASHEIM is assistant professor in the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago and teaches courses on popular culture and the mass media of communications. He assisted Dr. Bernard Berelson in the preparation of the volume The Library's Public for the Public Library Inquiry, and has contributed articles to various professional journals. This article, like Mr. Asheim's previous "From Book to Film: Simplification" which appeared in Volume V, Number 3, of the Hollywood Quarterly, is based on material from his doctoral dissertation From Book to Film, submitted at the University of Chicago in 1949.