Hollywood's American Tragedies
Hollywood's American Tragedies
About this book
Hollywood's obsession with Theodore Dreiser's novel 'An American Tragedy' stretches across the history of cinema, with Eisenstein, von Sternberg, George Stevens, Godard and Woody Allen all having adapted the story to the screen. This is a detailed study of this extraordinary sequence of adaptations.
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- OL Work ID
- OL3904802W
Subjects
American literatureFilm adaptationsFilm and video adaptationsHistory and criticismMotion picture industryMotion pictures, historyUnited states, social life and customsLITERARY CRITICISMAmericanGeneralAmerican tragedy (Dreiser, Theodore)Film theory & criticism