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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Rosenbaum is the author of Moving Places: A Life at the Movies (1995) and Midnight Movies (1991)! co-authored with J. Hoberman. He writes regularly for the Chicago Reader . Klappentext Greed was to have been Erich von Stroheim's masterwork! but his immense plans were his undoing. This volume! reconstructs the history of the film. Each volume in the BFI Film Classics series contains a personal commentary on the film! a brief production history and a detailed filmography. Zusammenfassung Greed is a legendary film begun in 1923. It was to have been Erich von Stroheim's masterwork, but his colossal ambitions were to be his undoing. His obsession with realistic detail and determination to extract every ounce of drama from his source, Frank Norris's novel McTeague , stretched the shooting schedule to inordinate lengths, resulting in a film which ran for over seven hours. Jonathan Rosenbaum has made a meticulous study of all the sources. In a fascinating piece of detective work, he reconstructs the history of one of cinema's greatest ruins. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Aspects of Production: The Norris Text2. Aspects of Production: The Stroheim Text3. Aspects of Production: MGM4. Aspects of Reception and Consumption: The Legacy of Greed NotesCreditsBibliography
