- Title
- Teaching Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as Novel and Film
- Author/Creator
- Donald A. Daiker
- Publication Details
- Hemingway's Earliest Heroes: Nick Adams and Jake Barnes, pp.301-314
- Annotation
- Daiker shares his experience teaching the novel alongside its 1957 film adaptation to adult students in a five-week mini course investigating why the film flopped critically despite its acclaimed director Henry King and screenwriter Peter Viertel and all-star cast, including Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, and Ava Gardner. Discussion focuses on issues of miscasting, Viertel's reliance on cliché, and King's failure to capture key themes such as Jake's search for sustaining values and restructure of the novel's alternate settings to magnify conflict. Closes with a look at the detrimental impact of Hollywood's Hays Code on the movie's moral content and the box-office's demand for happy endings. Forthcoming in Teaching Hemingway and Film. Edited by Cam Cobb and Marc Dudley. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
- Publisher
- Innovativeink Press; Dubuque, IA
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015213299003691
Book chapter
Teaching Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as Novel and Film
Hemingway's Earliest Heroes: Nick Adams and Jake Barnes, pp.301-314
Innovativeink Press
2024
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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