Bibliograph

Under the red, white and blue, patriotism, disenchantment and the stubborn myth of the Great gatsby, Greil Marcus

Type

Label

Under the red, white and blue, patriotism, disenchantment and the stubborn myth of the Great gatsby, Greil Marcus

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Under the red, white and blue

Oclc number

1152045983

Responsibility statement

Greil Marcus

Sub title

patriotism, disenchantment and the stubborn myth of the Great gatsby

Summary

Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century, Fitzgerald's story has become a key to American culture and American life itself. Marcus follows the arc of The Great Gatsby from 1925 into the ways it has insinuated itself into works by writers such as Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler; found echoes in the work of performers from Jelly Roll Morton to Lana Del Rey; and continued to rewrite both its own story and that of the country at large in the hands of dramatists and filmmakers from the 1920s to John Collins's 2006 Gatz and Baz Luhrmann's critically reviled (here celebrated) 2013 movie version--the fourth, so far

Table Of Contents

Subway -- A patriotic swerve -- A book everyone has heard of -- Reading the book -- The ferment -- At the movies -- "He too was a Great Gatsby" -- Fable

Target audience

adult

Creator