Passport to Hollywood : Hollywood films, European directors
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Passport to Hollywood : Hollywood films, European directors
（SUNY series in postmodern culture / Joseph Natoli, editor）
State University of New York Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303) and index
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CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
In Passport to Hollywood, James Morrison examines a series of Hollywood films by directors from European art-cinemas. Drawing widely on current research in film theory, film history, and cultural studies, he traces the influence of European filmmakers in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1980s and illuminates the relation between modernism and mass-culture in American movies. By interpreting important American films, Morrison also shows how these films illustrate key issues of cultural hierarchy and national culture over fifty years of American cinema. In addition, he explores the complex and often contradictory ways that these Hollywood movies conceptualize ideas about "foreignness." Using insightful close viewings, Morrison demonstrates new connections among modernism, postmodernism, and American movies.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction. Resident Aliens: Hollywood Films, European Directors
Part One. Classical Hollywood Modernisms
1 Hollywood as Modernism's Other: The Case of Sunrise
2 Representation and Form: Representing Nationality in This Land Is Mine
3 Masscult Modernism, Modernist Masscult: Cultural Hierarchy in Scarlet Street
Part Two. Identity and Difference: Post-Classical Hollywood and European Art-Cinema
4 Un-American Activities in 1950s Hollywood: Hollywood Reading Europe/Europe Reading Hollywood
5 Reinventing Otherness: Petulia, Art-Cinema, and the New Hollywood
6. Mythic Self-Consciousness and Homosexual Panic in the New Hollywood: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Deliverance
7 Cutter's Way and New Hollywood Spectatorship
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