Hollywood's American Tragedies

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.

subjects: American literature,  Film adaptations,  Film and video adaptations,  History and criticism,  Motion picture industry,  Motion pictures, history,  United states, social life and customs,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  American,  General,  American tragedy (Dreiser, Theodore),  Film theory & criticism

People: Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)