A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Hansberry, Lorraine
A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Hansberry, Lorraine

A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American...
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Author: Lorraine Hansberry
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Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Hansberry, Lorraine

A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

BD$38.45
A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Hansberry, Lorraine

A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

BD$38.45
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry's script and a testament to her unparalled accomplishment as a Black artist.

The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, with a screenplay by the author, Lorraine Hansberry, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival even though one-third of the actual screenplay Hansberry had written had been cut out. The film did essentially bring Hansberry's extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision.

Now, with this landmark edition of Lorraine Hansberry's original script for the movie of A Raisin in the Sun that audiences never viewed, readers have at hand an epic, eloquent work capturing not only the life and dreams of a Black family, but the Chicago--and the society--that surround and shape them.

Important changes in dialogue and exterior shots, a stunning shift of focus to her male protagonist, and a dramatic rewriting of the final scene show us an artist who understood and used the cinematic medium to transform a stage play into a different art form--a profound and powerful film.

Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 10/01/1992
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.38w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780452267763

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 12793 / Raisin in the Sun (Unfilmed Original Screenplay)


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/1992

About the Author
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) electrified the theatrical world with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, which won the New York Critics Circle Award for the 1958-59 season. Before her tragic death from cancer at the age of 34, she had already produced a remarkable body of work, including The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window and Les Blancs. Her former husband and literary executor, the late Robert Nemiroff, posthumously produced and published her To Be Young, Gifted and Black and the musical Raisin.

Robert Nemiroff (1929-1991) was a Broadway producer and the literary executor of Lorraine Hansberry's estate.
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