The Great Gatsby meets Alain Badiou: Rethinking fidelity in film adaptation

Author

Ursula S Vooght

Synopsis

The subject of this book is a consideration of the usefulness of the concept of fidelity put forward by the philosopher Alain Badiou in the discussion of film adaptation. Fidelity or faithfulness is primarily a consideration that emerges in relation to so-called canonical texts in adaptation: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby occupies a position of global recognisability and, within the United States, cultural mythology that has triggered strong reactions to the four Hollywood adaptations. The various adaptations allow for the differing approaches to the adaptation of this novel to be meaningfully explored. The film adaptations’ paratextual elements will be discussed in order to show how these acted as limiting lenses. The strategies of the films for handling elements of Fitzgerald’s prose and themes will be compared across the adaptations. This will culminate in an assertion of the worth of a larger application of a Badiouian fidelity within the field.

Chapters

Chapter 1
Scorched earth: Talking about fidelity in adaptation
Chapter 2
Rethinking fidelity: Alain Badiou’s fidelity in the service of truth
Chapter 3
Fitzgerald and the evental site of Modernity
Chapter 4
Approaching film adaptation via Badiou
Chapter 5
Paratexts: Before, during, after
Chapter 6
Textual elements of The Great Gatsby
Chapter 7
The eyes of Doctor TJ Eckleberg and the American Dream
Chapter 8
Anatomy of a party
Chapter 9
Conquering the canon

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