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Hollywood's American Tragedies

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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 …

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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.

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"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 …"

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