Hawthorne's film and the Anxiety of Eggers

[ish mailian]

One wonders how much of Hawthorne Eggers understood. He argues that
Hawthorne got things wrong but doesn't offer a serious critique of
what Hawthorne got wrong. Does he even realize that Hawthorne work was
a deliberate distortion, that getting things right was never something
Hawthorne ever set out to do?

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 9:27 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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