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Greed

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Book information

Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
1993
ISBN
9781838712020, 9780851703589
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5052497 bytes)
Pages
\58
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 22:14:02

Description

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.

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