They must know that Hollywood is not a hotbed of feminism and should not therefore wonder if the moving pictures made out of their books fall short of their expectations.Ĥ V. Alice Walker and Sara Paretsky are not naive, much less politically unsophisticated. What possessed Sara Paretsky to sell the rights? It seems that the money she received enabled her to leave her job and write full time 1.ģThe matter of money notwithstanding, one may question the wisdom of the authors selling their rights to the cinema. Readers especially felt let down and betrayed: the film was not only disappointing but damaging to the image of V.
1 Or so she told Jeremiah Healy in a private discussion which he relayed at the conference, Paris, 2 (.)ĢWhat can be worth investigating is the following question: what does Hollywood make of women’s fiction and particularly feminist fiction? More specifically, how does a male director deal with female/feminist material? Reportedly, Alice Walker was not very happy with Steven Spielberg’s treatment of The Color Purple.But then, was E.T.’s father a good choice? Did she even have a choice in the matter? Sara Paretsky’s novels were adapted by a less well-known director and she was not very happy either, although she put up a brave front.
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