Materiali didattici
Lezione del 24 ottobre 2012
Tom Gunning, "The Cinema of Attraction", 1986
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Early Success", 1937
Lezione del 29 ottobre 2012
Fitzgerald’s Villa in the French Riviera
Casey Jones
Babes in the Woods, 1917
(lyrics)
Love Moon, 1917
Kiss Me Again, 1919
Arrow Collar Man
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Gibson Girl
Chariot-race Sign
Materiali per la lezione del 12 novembre
“Can’t you see us traveling around and spending money, and being worshipped by bell boys and waiters? Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth”.
"We've been keeping pretty close to you in case you have trouble with those six strange niggers."
FSF, “The Offshore Pirate”, in The Saturday Evening Post,1920
"…A limousine passed us driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry.
FSF, The Great Gatsby, 1925
“That's a Menada River, we always call it ever since I was a gull. Yes, suh, that's a Menada River. An them two boys was blowed right across it an set down on the othah side just as pretty, 'thout any hurt at all. Chimney fell on me,” she concluded, feeling her head.
FSF, “A Family in the Wind”, 1932
[The new novel will be] much more carefully written than the first one and I have a good deal of faith in it tho it’s so bitter and pessimistic that I doubt if it’ll have the popular success of the first. Still, as you know, I really am in this game seriously and for something beside money and if it’s necessary to bootlick the pet delusions of the inhabitants of Main Street… to make money I’d rather live on less and preserve the only duty of a sincere writer—to set down life as he sees itas gracefully as he knows how
FSF to his Uncle, 1920
My one hope is to be endorsed by he intellectually elite & thus be forced on to people as Conrad was.
FSF to Maxwell Perkins, 1921
It is a bitter and insolent book that I fear will never be popular and that will undoubtedly offend a lot of people
FSF to Carl Hovey of Metropolitan Magazine, 1922
I realize I can’t get a real good price but reap the subtle, and nowadays oh-so-valuable dividend that comes from Mencken’s good graces.
FSF to Harold Ober, 1922 – On the publication of “The Diamond as Big As the Ritz”, published, eventually, on The Smart Set
I have decided to be a pure artist + experiment in form and emotion.
FSF to Maxwell Perkins, 1923
The Post now pays the old whore $4000 a screw. But now its because she’s mastered the 40 positions—in her youth one was enough.
FSF to Ernest Hemingway, 1929
Materiali per la lezione del 19 novembre 2012
This Side of Paradise, March 1922
Flappers and Philosophers, Sept. 1922
The Beautiful and Damned, March 1922
Tales of the Jazz Age, Sep. 1922
Paul Strand
Paul Strand, Camera Work, 49-50, 1917
Charles Sheeler
Alfred Stieglitz, Panorama of Flatiron Building, 1903
Skycrapers of New York City from the North River, May 10, 1903
Interior NY Subway, 1905
Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler
Manhatta, 1921