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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.