AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 20 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. Professor Wai Chee Dimock positions her reading of Tender Is the Night alongside F. Scott Fitzgerald's career as a Hollywood screenwriter. She shows how the novel borrows narrative techniques from film, particularly flashback, "switchability" on a macro and micro scale, and montage. Invoking the theories of Sergei Eisenstein, she reads scenes of wartime death and individual murder to show how love and war are cross-mapped, superimposed onto one another as part of the narrative fabric of Tender Is the Night. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 20 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. "Ode to a Nightingale" and the Glamor of Tender Is the Night |
| [00:03:47] | 2. The Influence of Hollywood on Fitzgerald's Work |
| [00:08:29] | 3. The Publication History of Tender Is the Night |
| [00:12:02] | 4. Switchability on the Micro Scale |
| [00:18:00] | 5. "Hard" and "Pitiful" |
| [00:27:20] | 6. Montage as a Narrative Technique |
| [00:32:51] | 7. The Superimposition of Love and War on a Macro Scale |
| [00:39:20] | 8. The Superimposition of Love and War on the Micro Scale |
| [00:43:39] | 9. A Cinematic Rendition of Murder |
| References |
| Lecture 20 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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