MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
THE LOST GENERATION
BETWEEN THE WARS
OLLI WINTER STUDY GROUP
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY
METHODIST ON ALLEN ROAD
CONFERENCE ROOM B
FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 29, 2012
10:00-12:15 PM
Learn about Hemingway and Hadley, Scott and Zelda, Archibald MacLeish,
Picasso, Baker, Pound and many others as we return to Paris in the 1920s
for a discussion of artists and expatriates who Gertrude Stein called “The
Lost Generation.” Through reading Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and
film clips, we’ll consider their personalities, their relationships, and their
work.
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Study Group Agenda *
February 23
Welcome/Housekeeping
Introductions
A Look at Paris in the 1920s
Why Paris?
Midnight in Paris clips/discussion
Introducing expatriates: Sylvia Beach
Expatriate assignments organized
March 1
Comments/Questions
Expatriates: Stein & Toklas, Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Zelda
Midnight in Paris (cont’d)
Expatriate Relationships/Gertrude, Alice, Ernest, Fitz, & Zelda
& others
March 8
Comments/Questions
Expatriates: Gerald & Sara Murphy, Cole & Linda Porter
Tender is the Night/The basis for and evolution of the novel
Clips
March 15
Comments/Questions
Expatriates: MacLeish, Pound, Hughes
Hemingway’s Paris/A Moveable Feast
Clips
March 22
Comments/Questions
Reports: Bricktop & Baker, Copeland, Bechet
Paris: The Musical Crossroads
Clips
March 29
Comments/Questions
Expatriates: Flanner, Barnes, Barney
Women of the Left Bank
Epilogue: What happened to the Lost Generation?
Clips
Evaluations
*Schedule may change to accommodate participants’ interests in particular topics/time constraints.
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Ground Rules for Great Discussions
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Actively listen to one another.
Allow a speaker to finish his/her comments before making yours.
Respect others’ ideas and opinions.
Avoid side conversations
Show kindness, politeness and enthusiasm
Remember to turn off cell phones or put them on vibrate.
Facilitators
Roger and Carol May
9331 N. Northview Road
Peoria, IL 61615
(309) 692-1020
cmay1223@comcast.net
rgm08@comcast.net
Resources
Books
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Lincoln: University Press of
Nebraska, 1959
Blower, Brooke L. Becoming Americans in Paris Transatlantic Politics and
Culture between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2011.
Bouvet, Vincent and Gerard Durozoi. Paris Between the Wars 1919-1959
Art, Life & Culture. New York: The Vendome Press, 2010.
Burke, David. Writers in Paris Literary Lives in the City of Light. Berkeley:
Counterpoint, 2008.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. Fitzgerald and Hemingway A Dangerous Relationship.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994.
___________ (ed).
A Life in Letters F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Scribner’s, 1994.
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Bruccoli, Matthew J. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd
Revised edition). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002
Carpenter, Humphrey. Geniuses Together American Writers in Paris in the 1920s.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987.
Carr, Virginia Spencer. Dos Passos A Life. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1984.
Donaldson, Scott. Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship.
New York: The Overlook Press, 1999.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation A History of Literary Paris
in the Twenties & Thirties. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1983.
Flanner, Janet. Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939. New York: The Viking Press, 1972.
Hendrickson, Paul. Hemingway’s Boat Everything He Loved in Life and Lost,
1934-1961. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2011.
Malcolm, Janet. Two Lives Gertrude and Alice. New Haven: Yale
Unversity Press, 2007.
Miller, Linda Patterson (ed). Letters from the Lost Generation Gerald and Sarah
Murphy and Friends. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
Parker, Dorothy. Enough Rope A Book of Light Verse. New York: Pocket Books,
1926.
Souchami, Diana. Gertrude & Alice. London: I.B. Tavris, 2010.
Spangler, Sandra and Robert W. Trogden (eds). The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
1907-1922, Volume I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Tytell, John. Ezra Pound The Solitary Volcano. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1987.
Vaill, Amanda. Everybody Was So Young Gerald and Sara Murphy A Lost Generation
Love Story. New York: Broadway Books, 1998.
Magazines/Periodicals
Tomkins, Calvin. “Living Well is the Best Revenge.” The New Yorker, July 28, 1962
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DVDs
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer. 2004 A & E Home
Video 50 minutes
F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams. 2002 American Masters PBS 90
minutes
Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with Life 2005 A & E 110 minutes
Hemingway Rivers to the Sea. 2005 PBS 90 minutes
The Josephine Baker Story 1991 HBO Films 1991. 130 minutes
Last Call. 2002 Showtime Films 96 minutes (about Fitzgerald)
Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2006 Kulture Video 80 minutes
Midnight in Paris. 2011 Gravier Productions 94 minutes
Paris The Luminous Years Toward Making of the Modern. 2010 PBS 120
minutes
Paris Was a Woman. 1996 Zeitgeist Films 75 minutes (about Stein &
Toklas)
Waiting for the Moon. 1987 Skouras Pictures 88 minutes (about Stein &
Toklas)
You’re the Top The Cole Porter Story. 1990
Videfilms 56 minutes
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Films about Cole Porter
De-Lovely The Cole Porter Story (2004)
Night and Day (1946)
Films based on F. Scott Fitzgerald stories/books
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Great Gatsby (1949, 1974, 2012)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) based on Babylon Revisited
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Tender is the Night (1962)
Films based on Ernest Hemingway stories/books
A Farewell to Arms (1932, 1957)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Hemingway’s Garden of Eden (2008)
Islands in the Stream (1977)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Killers (1946, 1964)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
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