{"id":62562,"date":"2021-12-06T23:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62562"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:52:15","slug":"as-is-by-now-clear-i-have-my-misgivings-about-halls-recent-film-but-above-all-im-very-glad-that-she-made-it-if-nothing-else-it-is-a-sign-of-larsens-growing-stature-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62562","title":{"rendered":"As is by now clear, I have my misgivings about Hall\u2019s recent film, but, above all, I\u2019m very glad that she made it. If nothing else, it is a sign of Larsen\u2019s growing stature, a growth evident to any scholar who has been watching the ballooning scholarly interest in her work in the last decade."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To be sure, there are other dimensions of this adaptation that deserve discussion\u2014for example, the downplaying of Clare\u2019s abusive childhood, which renders her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing<\/a> a little more mercenary than it is in the novel\u2014but I\u2019ve already gone on too long. As is by now clear, I have my misgivings about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Rebecca] Hall\u2019s<\/a> recent film, but, above all, I\u2019m very glad that she made it. If nothing else, it is a sign of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Nella] Larsen\u2019s<\/a> growing stature, a growth evident to any scholar who has been watching the ballooning scholarly interest in her work in the last decade. Having her novel adapted for the big screen constitutes a new stage in this evolution, for it makes her only the second novelist of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a> to have her work adapted for film in a major way (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zora_Neale_Hurston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zora Neale Hurston<\/a> was first, with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darnell Martin\u2019s 2005 adaptation<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/em><\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rafael Walker, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passing into Film: Rebecca Hall\u2019s Adaptation of Nella Larsen<\/a>,\u201d <em>Modernism\/modernity<\/em>, Volume 6, Cycle 2 (11\/10\/2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/modernismmodernity.org\/forums\/posts\/walker-passing-film-hall-adaptation-larsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/modernismmodernity.org\/forums\/posts\/walker-passing-film-hall-adaptation-larsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be sure, there are other dimensions of this adaptation that deserve discussion\u2014for example, the downplaying of Clare\u2019s abusive childhood, which renders her passing a little more mercenary than it is in the novel\u2014but I\u2019ve already gone on too long. As is by now clear, I have my misgivings about [Rebecca] Hall\u2019s recent film, but, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23146,20941,87,22792,28879,150],"class_list":["post-62562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-darnell-martin","tag-modernismmodernity","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rafael-walker","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-zora-neale-hurston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62564,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562\/revisions\/62564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}