Hollywood's American Tragedies: Dreiser, Eisenstein, Sternberg, Stevens

by Mandy Merck

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 cinema. Some of cinema's greatest directors - Sergei Eisenstein, Josef von Sternberg and George Stevens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845206657
• ISBN13: 9781845206659
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"