Diese Unterrichtsreihe zum Film “The Great Gatsby” beinhaltet ausführliche Interpretationshilfen, Unterrichtsvorschläge und Arbeitsblätter. Sie führt dabei allgemein in die Analyse von Filmen ein und gibt andererseits konkrete Vorgaben zur strukturierten Erarbeitung der Filmanalyse und zur Interpretation des Werkes.

The movie ‘The Great Gatsby’ is not only full of life and diversity, it also conveys the messages of Fitzgerald’s novel in an elaborately worked out plot structure with all the elements brilliantly joined together to create meaning. Since the movie has a modern touch and offers a large variety of approaches, it is excellently suited for analysis. This teaching material explores some of what makes this work of art so beautiful and skillful.

The material includes teachers’ and students’ material about the following topics:

• Collecting information about the film
• Structure and comprehension
• Analysis of the settings, the main characters and the central motives
• The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
• Analysis of J-Zay’s rap song 100$ bill (intro, verse 1)
• The central conflict
• Scene analysis