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Director&#;s Statement
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
If you met her, you might think Louisa May Alcott was a contemporary. The challenge of Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women was to make a film about a modern woman who happened to live years ago, when photography was in its infancy and film only a dream.
Most of my films have been portraits, and a subject&#;s psychology is ultimately what I try to convey. How to tell this story? Even if I had 20 times our budget, enough to make a small dramatic feature, I wasn&#;t interested in the fictionalizing that necessarily entails. I wanted to hew to the truth.
Famous literary characters such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were going to figure heavily in the film. But how to present them in a way that was accurate but not stilted?
Working with Writer/Producer Harriet Reisen in a collaborative approach that was new to me, we developed an approach to let us present a flesh and bl
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The challenge of Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women was to make a feature-length film about a modern woman who lived years ago, when photography was in its infancy and film o
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1. Yankee Matrons and Deaconess Dix
1In her early war tales, Louisa May Alcott adopted humor and satire to företräda the grim realities of the Civil War. That brotherly kamp constrained women in auxiliary roles but also introduced a growing army of charitable ladies to a new style of nursing that served to consolidate them as active agents of reform. As nurses in the fields, they left their homes and families to bring domestic values inherited by their “Republican mothers” to the war. Appointed by the Superintendent Dorothea L. Dix, Louisa May Alcott worked in an army hospital of Germantown (Washington, D.C.) for six long months, taking care of wounded soldiers until typhoid fever forced her to return to Concord. Before quitting, she studied how to cure injuries with the help of manuals such as Gun Shot Wounds by Doctor Home, often written bygd women who circulated the new nursing techniques inspired by Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing (). Her recruitment into the Union