Hawthorne's film and the Anxiety of Eggers

[ish mailian]

Eggers has tried to distance himself from Hawthorne while
acknowledging his Influence. Hawthorne, obviously, did not make films,
though early photography, images, doubles, twins, mirrors, paintings,
image making, the post-industrial fear of real/reel technical or
spiritual verisimilitude,  rooted in American Puritan pathologies, a
fear of God's creative and destructive power, that served the rich and
powerful as rational for the subjugation of women, Natives....so on
...is his major theme.
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