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Author Florin, Bo, 1961-

Title Transition and transformation : Victor Sjöström in Hollywood 1923-1930 / Bo Florin.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Filmography
Series Film culture in transition
Film culture in transition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.
Includes filmography (pages 153-154).
Summary Victor Sjöström (1879-1960), or Victor Seastrom as he was known during his Hollywood career, was undoubtedly one of the most renowned silent film directors. Focusing on his masterpieces such as 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The Wind', but also including films he had made in Sweden before moving to Hollywood, as well as film fragments and films considered lost, Florin analyses Sjöström's austere and naturalistic style and the transformations it underwent during his Hollywood years.
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Contents Introduction -- From Sjöström to Seastrom -- Sjöström -- From National to International -- Lyrical Intimacy as Authorial Style -- National or International in Public Debate -- American Voices on Sjöström -- A European in Hollywood -- Name the Man and the Shift of -- Production Systems -- Production Cultures -- Contaminating Hollywood -- Stylistic Variations -- From Scientist to Clown -- He Who Gets Slapped -- Sjöström as Hollywood Scriptwriter -- Traces of the Narrator -- The Symbolic Clown -- Transformed Identities -- The Question of Whitefacing -- He, the Clown -- A for Adultery -- The Scarlet Letter -- Hester Prynne and the Spectacle -- An Aesthetics of Light -- Stylistic Devices -- Conquering Nature -- The Wind -- Landscape of the Origins -- Framing the Wind -- Shattering the Frame -- From Physical Space to Mental Space -- The Final Crossover -- Fragmented Pieces -- Writing the History of the Lost Hollywood Films -- Authorial Imprints: Confessions of a Queen -- Lagerlöf in Hollywood: The Tower of Lies -- The Divine Woman -- From Bernhardt to Garbo -- A Strange Interlude: The Masks of the Devil -- The Shadow of the Silents -- A Lady to Love -- One Film, Two Versions -- The Transition to Sound -- The Transition from Silents -- Europeans in Hollywood -- The Genius and the System- Some Concluding Remarks.
Language English.
Subject Sjöström, Victor, 1879-1960.
Sjöström, Victor, 1879-1960.
Sjöström, Victor, 1879-1960 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqqxMKxVyyqFmffVXQ8YP
Motion picture producers and directors -- California -- Los Angeles.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Californie -- Los Angeles.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Motion picture producers and directors
California -- Los Angeles https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfWYmJkDYcpGWYVDfWxDq
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Transition and transformation. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013] 9789089645043 (DLC) 2014480019
ISBN 9789048518180 (electronic bk.)
9048518180 (electronic bk.)
9089645047
9789089645043
9789048518197
9048518199
Standard No. AU@ 000056864241
GBVCP 1003728162
GBVCP 1009431293

 
    
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