Greed

by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838715991
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum is film critic for the Chicago Reader and author of Movie Wars (2002) and Dead Man (BFI Modern Classics, 2000), among many other books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Aspects of Production: The Norris Text
2. Aspects of Production: The Stroheim Text
3. Aspects of Production: MGM
4. Aspects of Reception and Consumption: The Legacy of Greed
Notes
Credits
Bibliography