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Title

Love and Death in Hollywood: Desertion and Redemption in Film Adaptations of A Farewell to Arms

Document Type

Article

Citation

Wright, Geoffrey A. "Love and Death in Hollywood: Desertion and Redemption in Film Adaptations of A Farewell to Arms." Literature/Film Quarterly 48, no. 4 (2020): 1-8.

Annotation

Two Hollywood versions of A Farewell to Arms heighten their nature as more love story than war story. Wright traces how each departs from the source novel, but is mostly interested in focusing on how they gingerly treat and transform Frederic's desertion. Both inject religious overtones into the plot line, Wright argues, while closely analyzing their cinematic imagery. And both lead to a spiritual redemption for Frederic, a conclusion missing from the novel and which may be the essential difference between Hemingway's vision and Hollywood's needs: "Hemingway resorted to resignation and despair, while

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Literature/Film Quarterly

Volume

48

Issue

4

Date

2020

Pages

1-8

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