This landmark volume brings readers an epic, eloquent work--the only edition available of the Original script Lorraine Hansberry wrote to transform her incomparable stage play into film.
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..
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.
The film did essentially bring Hansberry\'s extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision.
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.
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.
Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B.
Commentary by Spike Lee.
This edition restores all deletions and brings readers the complete screenplay.
This landmark volume brings readers an epic, eloquent work--the only edition available of the Original script Lorraine Hansberry wrote to transform her incomparable stage play into film
