Abstract
The film "Summer of '42,"produced from Herman Raucher's screenplay, and his novel created from it both won wild popularity. The debate arose about their Raucher-alleged autobiographical content. Elements such as (1) imaginable vulnerability of principals to pay civil damages to an actual widow portrayed as fornicatrix-statutory rapist; (2) misrepresenting World War II battlefield Kiska, Alaska; (3) numerous, conspicuous anachronisms; plus (4) delivery following profitable filming of adult-on-minor sexual plots of Robert Anderson's play "Tea and Sympathy" and Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita," combine to suggest the 1971 pure fiction followed by authorial "autobiography-hoax." Elizabeth Kolbert invokes Robert Wilson's August 2019 biography "Barnum: An American Life" to recall Americans traditionally welcome hoaxer-entertainers, e.g., nineteenth-century empresario-legend Phineas T. Barnum.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 31-52 |
| Journal | Brolly: Journal of Social Sciences (London, England) |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 2019 |