Made this video essay for my Film & Literature class in the fall and wanted to post it here! I could talk about Gerwig's Little Women for hours on end so maybe I'll make another video unpacking Jo & Laurie's relationship in more detail :)
Sources:
Alcott, Louisa May. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals. 1889.
Alcott, Louisa May, and Joel Myerson. The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott. Univ. of Georgia Press, 1995.
Blackford, Holly. "Chasing Amy: Mephistopheles, the Laurence Boy, and Louisa May Alcott's punishment of female ambition." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, Sept. 2011, pp. 1+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A277271356/GLS?u=upitt_main&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=091ea68f.
Ismail, Hisham Muhamad. "Little Women: Louisa May Alcott's Duality Between the Intentional Lessons and the Unconscious Messages." Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, Apr. 2023, pp. 867+. Gale Literature Resource Center, dx.doi.org.pitt.idm.oclc.org/10.17507/tpls.1304.07.
Martinelli, Marissa, and Schwedel, Heather. “Two ‘Little Women’ Superfans Debate the New Movie’s ‘Inception’-Style Ending.” Slate Magazine, Slate, 25 Dec. 2019, slate.com/culture/2019/12/little-women-movie-ending-explained-twist-jo-bhaer-married.html.
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