The Big Read rolls on in Ridgefield with a book-to-movie discussion about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and the 1974 and 2013 film adaptations.
Mark Edwards will lead the discussion on Nov. 1 from from 11 – 12:30 p.m. Excerpts from both films will be shown and discussed. Attendees are asked to please register for the program.
About Mark Edwards, courtesy of Ridgefield Library: Mark Edwards teaches film and media studies at Sacred Heart University. His book “Pirates on Dinosaur Island” was published in the spring of 2012 by Gemma Media, and his play “Ladies in Hats” was a Kennedy Center semi-finalist and was performed in the Boston Playwrights' Theatre Marathon in 2010. Edwards is currently writing a column on science fiction television for Space and Time magazine, and teaches an Art of Science Fiction and Fantasy writing course for the M.F.A. program at Lesley University. Mark Edwards has presented many popular "book to movie" discussions at the Ridgefield Library, which have ranged from film screenings and talks on works by Shakespeare and Dickens to The Hobbit and Game of Thrones.