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"For his own satisfaction": eliminating the new woman figure in McTeague.(Critical Essay)

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From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20040301
Author:Brandt, Maria F.

In the 1924 film Greed, Erich von Stroheim attempted to translate Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague page by page. According to Mary Lawlor, Stroheim told critic Edwin Shallert in 1923, "It has always been my determination to produce the story exactly as it was written" (389). Indeed, Greed not only recounts the characters and plot of McTeague, but also uses stylistic excesses and repetitions, like Norris's novel, to draw viewers into the same violent world it suggests they critique. The film's carnival-like music, for example, the dizzying movement of its carousel horses, its ...

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