Hollywood's American tragedies : Dreiser, Eisenstein, Sternberg, Stevens /
"Theodore Dreiser's dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation. Now a classic of American literature, the story is one to which Hollywood has repeatedly returned." "Hollywood's obsession with this tale of America...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2007
Oxford ; New York : 2007 |
| Edition: | English ed |
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| Summary: | "Theodore Dreiser's dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation. Now a classic of American literature, the story is one to which Hollywood has repeatedly returned." "Hollywood's obsession with this tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of film. Some of cinema's greatest directors - Sergei Eisenstein, Josef von Sternberg and George Stevens - have attempted to bring this classic story to the screen. Subsequently, both Jean-Luc Godard and Woody Allen have returned to the story and to these earlier adaptations." "Hollywood's American Tragedies is the first detailed study of this extraordinary sequence of adaptations. What it reveals is a history of Hollywood - from its politics to its cinematography - and, much deeper, of American culture and the difficulty of telling an American tragedy in the land of the American dream ."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 171 p.) : ill 1 online resource (x, 171 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index |
| ISBN: | 184788346X 9781847883469 |
| Access: | License restrictions may limit access |