Hollywood's American Tragedies
Edition: English Ed edition
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: December 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781845206642
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; American studies; Film theory & criticism; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; The Americas; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - Cultural; American literature; Film adaptations; Film and video adaptations; History and criticism
Description: 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.