Passport to Hollywood

James Morrison is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University.

"James Morrison's Passport to Hollywood is a superb examination of the American films of some of the most gifted European cineastes. Using such classic films as Scarlet Street, This Land is Mine, and more recent works such as Petulia, Morrison demonstrates the ways in which the concerns of such disparate directors as Lang, Renoir, Lester, Murnau, and Forman found expression within the Hollywood cinema, enriching both the cinema of America, as well as demonstrating to others what films were possible working within the Hollywood machine. Engrossing, carefully researched, and richly detailed, Morrison's book is at once accessible and meticulous." — Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard

• List of Illustrations 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 Coda Notes Bibliography Index