Yale professor Wai Chee Dimock reads F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night through his career as a Hollywood screenwriter, part of her course Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner. She traces how the novel absorbs film techniques, flashback, what she calls switchability on both micro and macro scales, and montage, drawing on Sergei Eisenstein's film theory. Dimock walks through the novel's publication history before turning to specific scenes, including wartime death and an individual murder, to show how love and war get cross-mapped and superimposed within the narrative. Chapter markers move from the novel's opening allusion to Keats's Ode to a Nightingale through close readings of language she calls hard and pitiful, ending on a cinematic rendition of murder. The lecture is lucid, close to the text, and treats Fitzgerald's Hollywood work as a serious influence on his prose rather than a biographical footnote.