5 options
Hollywood's American tragedies / Mandy Merck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merck, Mandy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. American tragedy.
- Dreiser, Theodore.
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945--Film adaptations.
- American literature--Film adaptations.
- American literature.
- Film adaptations--History and criticism.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- English ed.
- Distribution:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
- 2. A Monstrous Challenge to American Society - Sergei Eisenstein
- 3. A Courtroom Drama - Josef von Sternberg
- 4. Let the Audience See His Desire - George Stevens
- 5. Afterword.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: Oxford: Berg, 2007. Digital resource published 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 12, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 9786612473753
- 9781350061705
- 1350061700
- 9781282473751
- 1282473751
- 9781847883469
- 184788346X
- OCLC:
- 609856000
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.