Sex, lies and needlework: review of The scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne; movie directed by Roland Joffe)

Authors

A. Sutherland-Kelly

Abstract

I have an image of an extraterrestrial anthropologist holding a copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel in one hand and a video tape of Roland Joff's 1995 film in the other. I imagine her examining these two versions of The Scarlet Letter as the only artefacts of human culture available to her. I can hear her baffled query: 'what could cause such regression in a civilisation?'

Recommended Citation

Sutherland-Kelly, A., Sex, lies and needlework: review of The scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne; movie directed by Roland Joffe), Law Text Culture, 3, 1997, 236-242.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol3/iss1/16