Hollywood's American Tragedies
by Mandy Merck
American literatureFilm adaptationsFilm and video adaptationsHistory and criticismMotion picture industryMotion pictures, historyUnited states, social life and customsLITERARY CRITICISM
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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