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Fantastic Film History and More,
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This review is from: Hollywood's American Tragedies (Paperback)
This is old-school-is-new-school film history, taking a well-worn genre in film studies (adaptation studies) and turning it inside out by looking closely at Hollywood's multiple attempts at turning Theodore Dreiser's unwieldy novel 'American Tragedy' (which forecasts much about today's reality TV & celebrity tabloid culture) into film - everybody, it seems, took this story on - most famously in 'A Place In the Sun.' Merck's is the sort of book that you can't put down - the engaged and engaging prose of 'In Your Face' and 'Perversions' is directed here at a behind the scenes history of politics and film production. This book is packed with great storytelling - about the film-makers, studio executives, and jaw-dropping details about Dreiser himself. A must read for film historians, for Am Lit folks interested in the collision of writing & film-making, but also just a great read for film buffs!
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Hollywood's American Tragedies by Mandy Merck (Paperback - December 15, 2007)
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