Annotated Bibliography: Little Women (1994) and Little Women (2019)

 

Genre: 

Acocella, J. (2018, August 20). How “Little women” got big. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/how-little-women-got-big 

The article discusses the genre of Little Women and its lasting impact on storytelling.  

Gilbert, S. (2022, May 25). The lie of “little women.” The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/little-women-louisa-may-alcott/565754/ 

The article provides insight into the coming-of-age genre the film transformed. The article explores the film's "lies" and how it continuously reveals a provocative "disobedient" feminine the world needs. 

Josephine Tovey. (2020, January 15). Being jo march: Little women finally has an ending grown women deserve | Josephine Tovey. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/15/being-jo-march-little-women-finally-has-an-ending-grown-women-deserve 

The article explains how Little Women transforms female archetypes. 

Social History: 

Spencer, A. (2019, September 12). “little women”: An oral history of the 1994 adaptation. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/movies/little-women.html

The New York Times article provides the social context, details, and cast interviews of the 1994 Little Women film and its impact on society. 

Maslin, J. (1994, December 21). The gold standard for Girlhood Across America. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/21/movies/film-review-the-gold-standard-for-girlhood-across-america.html 

The article outlines the changing expectations for women across different decades and how Little Women fits into feminism. 

Bennett, J. (2020, January 2). This is “little women” for a new era. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/books/little-women-feminism-2019-movie.html 

The article explains how the new adaptation fits the contemporary context of feminism for a "new era" and how the film achieves what the others didn't.