If the main character is a girl, make sure she is married by the end. Or dead. Either way – Little Women (2019)
Hello again listeners!
After a short hiatus, we are back! And we’re very excited to be bringing you a three part discussion on the cultural phenomenon that is Little Women. 👭🏼👭🏻
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For our discussions, we’ll be focusing on two of the most beloved adaptations of the original 19th century novel: Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 film, starring Winona Ryder as Jo, and Greta Gerwig’s 2019 version starring Saoirse Ronan.
Through these three episodes we want to ask the question of whether ‘every generation deserves its own Little Women’, why the story remains so popular, and how its rich history of adaptation and analysis interact to inform our current understanding of the text.
Our main focus in this episode is how the 1994 and 2019 versions build, comment on, and reimagine the story of Little Women for their respective audiences, using not only the ‘original’ text, but also previous adaptations and interpretations of the text, and even Alcott’s own biography.
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📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)
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Secondary Sources:
📰 “Life Magazine: Little Women: A Story for Every Generation” (Meredith Corp., 2020)
📚 “Little Women” (1868, 1869) by Louisa May Alcott🎞️ “Little Women” (1933) (dir. George Cukor, 📜 Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman)🎞️ “Little Women” (1949) (dir. Mervyn LeRoy, 📜 Andrew Solt, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman)🎞️ “Little Women” (1994) (dir. Gillian Armstrong, 📜 Robin Swicord)🎞️ “Little Women” (2019) (dir. + 📜 Greta Gerwig)📺 “Little Women” (2017) (dir. Vanessa Caswill, 📜 Heidi Thomas) (Masterpiece: PBS)📚 “Adaptation and Appropriation” by Julie Sanders (2007)📚 “Little Women and The Feminist Imagination” (Janice M. Alberghene, Beverly Lyon Clark) (1999) (Interview with Louise Chandler Moulton, 1883)📜 “The Death of the Author” (“La mort de l'auteur”) (1967) by Roland Barthes 📜 ‘Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration’: Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-Siècle (Bryony Randall)📜 “The New ‘Little Women’ Makes Space For Jo’s Queerness” (Shannon Keating) (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/little-women-greta-gerwig-saoirse-ronan-jo-march-queer)📜 “The New Little Women Basically Proves Jo March is Queer” (Michelle Hyun Kim) (https://www.them.us/story/little-women-greta-gerwig-jo-march-queer)📼 “Greta Gerwig on Little Women: Reel Pieces with Annette Insdorf” (https://youtu.be/Z-4Ahn6lV-Y)📼 “Little Women: Laurie & Jo” (https://youtu.be/osdVRusNGgg)🎞️ “G.I. Jane” (1997) (dir. Ridley Scott, 📜 David Twohy, Danielle Alexandra)
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