蜜芽传媒

Following the publication of 鈥楾he Great Gatsby鈥� a hundred years ago, F Scott Fitzgerald bemoaned the fact that not one of the reviewers, 鈥渉ad the slightest idea what the book was about鈥�. They had focused their attention on the book鈥檚 critique of what would become known as the American Dream, and ever since then the conversation about this most venerated of books has largely remained centred around that same theme. Professor Sarah Churchwell, who has been teaching, thinking and writing about the novel for decades, breaks away from that conversation to explore poetic, aesthetic and philosophical perspectives stemming from Fitzgerald鈥檚 own ambition to write a serious piece of art rather than merely a one-dimensional slice of social commentary. Sarah also features new cinematic and theatrical discoveries that reveal how most people first came to know the novel through adaptations that differed considerably from the source material. She speaks with academics Anne-Margaret Daniel, Anil Gomes, Nick Gaskell, Martina Mastandrea, Philip McGowan and James West.
Archive includes:
鈥楾he Great Gatsby鈥� Dir. Baz Luhrmann 2013 Warner Brothers
鈥楾he Great Gatsby Dir. Elliott Nugent 1949 Paramount
鈥楾he Dream Divided鈥� Dir. Fred Burnley 1969
Producer: Geoff Bird