The Copperhead: Novella and Movie Screenplay

by Kauffman, Bill; Frederic, Harold; Maxwell, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781938604348
• ISBN10: 1938604342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-07-16
• Publisher: Dzanc Books

Summary

Bill Kauffman has adapted Harold Frederic's novella (originally serialized in Scribner's Magazine) into a screenplay for Ron Maxwell's Civil War era movie which is also to be released in the spring of 2013. The Copperheadis a dramatically intense story set in New York State in 1862 and 1863 and it's about the price of dissent, the cost of dissent. "Copperhead" was the extremely derisive term used to insult those Northerners who were opposed to the war. It was a big movement in the North. They wanted to end the war, and this book (and related film) explores the anti-war movement in the North through the conflict of one family in one town. It's a work of fiction, but it's based on real events. The Copperheadexplores ground that has not been explored at all in screenplay or cinemathese people were politically opposed to warwhich ties the book and movie to our current situation. Bill Kauffmanis an American political writer generally aligned with the Paleoconservative movement. He was born in Batavia, New York, and currently resides in Elba, New York, with his wife and daughter. Harold Fredericis the author of The Damnation of Theron Wareas well as Gloria Mundi. Jonathan Yardley called Damnation"a minor classic of realism." Ronald F. Maxwellis an independent film director and writer. He is most famous for writing and directing the American Civil War epics Gettysburgand Gods and Generals.