Gautam Kundu

Fitzgerald and the Influence of Film

The Language of Cinema in the Novels

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Produktbeschreibung

This work explores the many ways in which the developing film industry of the early twentieth century influenced the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing specifically on his novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and the incomplete The Last Tycoon. The Beautiful and the Damned is also discussed briefly. Early chapters examine Fitzgerald's literary adaptation of visual film techniques (pans, freeze frames, slow motion) and aural cinematic concepts (sound effects, diegetic sound) within his most popular novels. The final chapter summarizes the effect such techniques had in augmenting and defining Fitzgerald's unique literary style.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780786431342
• ISBN-10: 0786431342
• Artikelnr.: 23018300

Autorenporträt

Gautam Kundu is an associate professor of English in the Department of Literature & Philosophy at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction     
1. Literature and Film     
2. Cinematic Visualization in the Novels     
3. Manipulation of Time and Space and Narrative Order: Editing Techniques
in Cinema and Their Literary Analogues     
4. Fitzgerald's Cinematic Use of Sound     
5. Other Cinematic Techniques in the Novels     
Conclusion     
Glossary of Film Terms     
Notes     
Bibliography     
Index