More directly for historians and educators, The Graduate offers a primary historical document of the early Second Wave feminist movement of the 1960s. More surprisingly, critical commentary on the two characters since then has continued to lack sufficient analysis. Robinson and her daughter, Elaine, gained rather shallow attention at the time of the film's release in 1967. Unsurprisingly, the central female characters, Mrs. Yet a major element of the film has been ignored for a half century: the emerging women's movement. Mike Nichols's The Graduate has been called "a Sixties emblem," (1) and with good reason: the film illustrates some of the defining aspects of the decade, including the hypersensitivity to a generation gap, the radicalization of sexual mores, and the anti-establishment search for authenticity.
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