The Age of Innocence

Resource Information

The work The Age of Innocence represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jericho Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Age of Innocence

Title variation

• Temp de l'innocence
• Edad de la inocencia
• âEpoca da inocãencia

Creator

• Age of innocence (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Lloyd, Norman, 1914-
• De Fina, Barbara
• Margolyes, Miriam
• McCowen, Alec
• Day-Lewis, Daniel
• Pescucci, Gabriella
• Cocks, Jay
• Pfeiffer, Michelle, 1957-
• Chaplin, Geraldine, 1944-
• Phillips, Siãan, 1933-
• Pryce, Jonathan
• Bernstein, Elmer
• Ballhaus, Michael, 1935-
• Ryder, Winona, 1971-
• hoopla digital
• Schoonmaker, Thelma
• Woodward, Joanne, 1930-
• Scorsese, Martin
• Smith, Alexis, 1921-1993
• Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
• Wilson, Stuart, 1946-
• Hurt, Mary Beth
• Leonard, Robert Sean, 1969-
• Gough, Michael, 1916-2011
• Ferretti, Dante, 1943-
• Grant, Richard E., 1957-

Actor

• Hurt, Mary Beth
• Wilson, Stuart, 1946-
• Smith, Alexis, 1921-1993
• Ryder, Winona, 1971-
• Pryce, Jonathan
• Chaplin, Geraldine, 1944-
• Phillips, Siãan, 1933-
• Pfeiffer, Michelle, 1957-
• Day-Lewis, Daniel
• McCowen, Alec
• Margolyes, Miriam
• Lloyd, Norman, 1914-
• Leonard, Robert Sean, 1969-
• Gough, Michael, 1916-2011
• Grant, Richard E., 1957-

Cinematographer

• Ballhaus, Michael, 1935-

Composer

• Bernstein, Elmer

Costume designer

• Pescucci, Gabriella

Director

• Scorsese, Martin

Film editor

• Schoonmaker, Thelma

Film producer

• De Fina, Barbara

Narrator

• Woodward, Joanne, 1930-

Production designer

• Ferretti, Dante, 1943-

Screenwriter

• Cocks, Jay
• Scorsese, Martin

Subject

• Women -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Film adaptations
• Women -- Conduct of life -- Drama
• Young men -- Drama
• Electronic books
• Love -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• New York (N.Y.) -- Drama
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama
• Single women -- Drama
• Social classes -- Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama
• United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Drama
• United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama
• Upper class -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama

Genre

• Film adaptations
• Drama
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be married to May Welland. Newland is pleased with the prospect, under he meets Countess Ellen Olenska, May's older cousin. Suddenly, Newland begins to doubt his arranged marriage and society's shallow rules as his attraction to Ellen increases

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

791.43/72

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

PerformerNote

Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Gough, Richard E. Grant, Mary Beth Hurt, Robert Sean Leonard, Norman Lloyd, Miriam Margolyes, Alec McCowen, Siãan Phillips, Jonathan Pryce, Alexis Smith, Stuart Wilson; narrator, Joanne Woodward

Target audience

adult