SOSC 4319
2003 - 2004

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Theoretical Approaches to Film Adaptation

by Michelle L. Gibbons



A Thousand Acres

based on the film adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Novel

CAST:

Michelle Pfeiffer
Jessica Lange
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jason Robards
Keith Carradine
Colin Firth

(Buena Vista - 1997)
Screenplay by Laura Jones
Produced by Marc Abraham, Lynn Arost, Steve Golin, Kate Guinzburg,
Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse

Plot summary :
A brief summary from NYU's medical literature site:

Smiley's novel, King Lear with a shocking twist, portrays the enduring violence of incest to body and spirit. The narrative voice describes her family--a wealthy farmer and his three daughters. Family relationships are explored, especially the hidden roots that shape and define behaviors and conflicts, some lasting a lifetime.

The disclosure of a horribly dark secret explains the personalities of the three daughters and, for two, their metaphoric afflictions (infertility and breast cancer). Smiley's novel is layered with rich complexities, but none more powerful and astonishing than the core event, the sexual victimization of two vulnerable teenage girls who, as the story unfolds, are permanently scarred. Through a reinterpretation of Lear, Smiley demonstrates the cost of this hideous form of male domination and female victimization.



 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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