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59. Jim Tully, “The Greatest Director in the World”, Motion Picture Classic, vol 19, no2,
1924, 85.
A for Adultery – The Scarlet Letter
Notes 143
1. Anke Brouwers, Feeling Through the Eyes: The Legacy of Sentimentalism in Silent
Hollywood – The Films of Mary Pickford and Frances Marion. Diss., University of
Antwerpen 2011, 292.
2. Thompson and Bordwell, 145.
3. Quoted in Pauline Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Boston: Little, Brown and Company,
1965.
4. Marion, 134 ff.
5. Brouwers, 273.
6. Ibid., 275.
7. Petrie, 140.
8. Cf the similar, already noted characteristic in Thompson and Bordwell, 54.
9. I develop this discussion in my unpublished licenciate thesis, “Från Terje Vigen till
Körkarlen – en studie över stilen i sex filmer av Victor Sjöström”, Stockholms
universitet, 1993.
10. Brouwers, 307.
11. Ibid., 289.
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales, London: Penguin Books,
1986 [1850], 80.
13. Ibid., 85.
14. Ibid., 80.
15. Brouwers, 288.
16. Hawthorne, 81.
17. Ibid., 84-87.
18. Örjan Roth-Lindberg, 1884, 238.
19. The essay is entitled “The Hidden Mirror”, ibid.
20. Ibid., 240.
21. Robin Hood (Bengt Idestam-Almquist), Den svenska filmens drama, Sjöström och
Stiller, Stockholm: Åhlén och söner, 1939, 13.
22. John Fullerton has discussed the influence of Christian Krogh’s illustrations in the
1905 edition of Ibsen’s poem “Terje Vigen” on Sjöström’s film; Fullerton, “The First
Swedish Film Masterpiece: Terje Vigen”, Focus on Film 20, 1975. In my dissertation, I
have discussed both the influence of the illustrations in the first Swedish edition of
Franz Grillparzer’s 1828 novel Klostret i Sendomir (1918), as well as the
Rembrandtesque light in several compositions from The Phantom Carriage. It
is also obvious that this method was not unique to Sjöström, even though he may
have developed it more consequently than some of his colleagues. But the fact
remains that several of the directors from the Swedish “golden age” of 1917-1924
drew inspiration from particular paintings or illustrations, such as Mauritz Stiller in
The Treasure of Arne or John W. Brunius in Synnöve Solbakken; Florin 1997.
23. Roth-Lindberg, 316.
24. Hawthorne, 83.