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2019
29 minutes
Traces the life and literary career of Ernest Hemingway, using portraits and views of places associated with his life. Enigmatic and intriguing, Hemingway is one of America's favorite authors. His dramatic understatement, dialogue and use of heroes made for great human interest.

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Faulkner
2019
33 minutes
Introduces the major themes of Faulkner's poems, plays, short stories, and novels. The film contextualizes life in the American south in the first half of the 20th century; Faulkner's southern upbringing, family history, and race relations in the wake of the Civil War were a major influence on his fiction. In 1924, Faulkner left his small town of Oxford and spent six months in New Orleans, where he was finally able to see the conditions of his upbringing from a distance and become acquainted with a literary circle with Sherwood Anderson at the center, jump-starting his serious fiction writing.

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Fitzgerald
2017
33 minutes
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul Minnesota into a fairly well-off family. He began his first novel while at Princeton University and very shortly after leaving it was accepted by Scribners and successfully published. He went on to be the prophet of the Jazz age of the twenties but his popularity declined. He is now recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This film by Malcolm Hossick covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.

Fitzgerald's success with This Side of Paradise enabled him to marry Zelda Sayre and enjoy celebrity, partying and visits to Europe and writing for Hollywood. Zelda's schizophrenia and his deepening alcoholism were the background for work on Tender is the Night. He died in 1940 with his novel The Last Tycoon only half finished

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The Great Gatsby
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004
53 minutes
Features dramatizations and interviews with scholars and authors, focusing on characterization and symbolism in the novel as well as social stratification, consumerism, and the cult of celebrity in American society.