Feature Stream: Wild Nights With Emily

 

Featuring Emily Dickinson's letters and poems via special arrangement with Harvard University Press, and starring comedienne Molly Shannon, this Guggenheim award-winning film is a dramatic comedy about the life of Emily DIckinson. It is a wonderful teaching tool for English, History and Creative Writing classes alike, appropriate for anyone over the age of 12 through post-graduate.

"The Emily of Olnek's film is not a melancholic recluse, but the heroine of a romantic comedy" according to the New York Times, Wild Nights With Emily "wrestles with serious themes, dramatizes fully realized relationships, and poses pointed questions about how legacies are devised and maintained"

Natalie Goldberg, author of the all-time best-selling writers handbook, "Writing Down The Bones," says, "Wild Nights With Emily is a wonderful film to show in schools, for students young and old! I loved this film- it's essential viewing for all students of literature."

Wild Nights With Emily is "As entertaining and thought provoking as Dickinson's poetry" (The Austin Chronicle) and is sure to give your students a lot to talk about, long after the film is over.

Wild Nights With Emily

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Recommendations, questions, comments? Contact Cory Mitchell, mitchellc@uwstout.edu