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Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen - Forging New Worlds (Paperback)
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Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen - Forging New Worlds (Paperback)
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Considered one of the greatest of American authors, Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1804-1864) created a memorable body of literature, which
included the novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven
Gables, as well as a wealth of short stories. In Adapting Nathaniel
Hawthorne to the Screen: Forging New Worlds, Laurence Raw
demonstrates how filmmakers have turned to Hawthorne to comment on
the nation's past, present, and future. Raw shows how some
filmmakers have tackled the difficulty of Hawthorne's material by
treating him strictly as a writer whose work was firmly situated in
American life of the mid-nineteenth century. Raw also examines how
directors have used Hawthorne's stories to comment on various
aspects of twentieth century American life. This device is
particularly evident in the many versions of The Scarlet Letter,
such as the 1950 television version broadcast two months after
Senator Joseph McCarthy's speech about State Department employees
who were "card-carrying members of the Communist Party" and 1960s
and early 70s versions supporting countercultural values where
filmmakers created characters prepared to fly in the face of
conformity and search for alternative means of existence. In this
volume, Raw also discusses adaptations of the short stories
"Feathertop," "The Snow Image," "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and
"Rappacinni's Daughter," as well as the novels The House of Seven
Gables and The Scarlet Letter, the latter having been transformed
into film no less than ten times. By surveying the canon of
adaptations produced over the last eight decades, this book
provides a unique insight into American social, political, and
cultural history from a variety of perspectives, underlining how
Hawthorne's work has been of enduring concern to directors and
audiences alike.
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