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The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun , with a screenplay by the author, Lorraine Hansberry, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival even though one-third of the actual screenplay Hansberry had written had been cut out. The film did essentially bring Hansberry's extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision. Now, with this landmark edition of Lorraine Hansberry's original script for the movie of A Raisin in the Sun that audiences never viewed, readers have at hand an epic, eloquent work capturing not only the life and dreams of a Black family, but the Chicago—and the society—that surround and shape them. Important changes in dialogue and exterior shots, a stunning shift of focus to her male protagonist, and a dramatic rewriting of the final scene show us an artist who understood and used the cinematic medium to transform a stage play into a different art form—a profound and powerful film.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780451183880","publication_date":"19950401","publisher":"Penguin Publishing Group","slug":"a-raisin-in-the-sun","subtitle":"The Unfilmed Original Screenplay","title":"A Raisin in the Sun"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"DRA001010","confidence_band":"high","label":"African American Plays","score":0.7926,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"PER011030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Playwriting","score":0.7007,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Black Lit Crit","score":0.6984,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"DRA001010","confidence_band":"high","label":"African American Plays","score":0.7926,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"PER011030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Playwriting","score":0.7007,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Black Lit Crit","score":0.6984,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"DRA001010","confidence_band":"high","label":"African American Plays","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"PER016000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Screenplays","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC001000","confidence_band":"high","label":"African American Studies","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"African American Plays","score":0.7926,"slug":"african-american-plays"},{"label":"Playwriting","score":0.7007,"slug":"playwriting"},{"label":"Black Lit Crit","score":0.6984,"slug":"black-lit-crit"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in Hansberry’s original screenplay and its cinematic adaptation"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Lorraine Hansberry"],"book_id":"9780679601722","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780679601722.jpg?v=3970fe2ae94311e9","score":0.9305,"title":"A Raisin in the Sun","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780679601722"},{"authors":["Lorraine Hansberry"],"book_id":"9780679755319","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780679755319.jpg?v=bad3463d5c9883ef","score":0.8297,"title":"A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780679755319"},{"authors":["Lorraine Hansberry","Robert Nemiroff","Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff","Margaret B. 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