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Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction – From Sjöström to Seastrom 9
Sjöström – From National to International 17
Lyrical Intimacy as Authorial Style 20
National or International in Public Debate 22
American Voices on Sjöström 24
A European in Hollywood – Name the Man and the Shift of
Production Systems 27
Production Cultures 30
Contaminating Hollywood 32
Stylistic Variations 38
From Scientist to Clown – He Who Gets Slapped 43
Sjöström as Hollywood Scriptwriter 47
Traces of the Narrator 49
The Symbolic Clown 51
Transformed Identities 53
The Question of Whitefacing 55
He, the Clown 60
AforAdultery– The Scarlet Letter 63
Hester Prynne and the Spectacle 66
An Aesthetics of Light 69
Stylistic Devices 74
Conquering Nature – The Wind 79
Landscape of the Origins 83
Framing the Wind 85
Shattering the Frame 87
From Physical Space to Mental Space 90
The Final Crossover 93
Fragmented Pieces – Writing the History of the Lost Hollywood
Films 99
Authorial Imprints: Confessions of a Queen 100
Lagerlöf in Hollywood: The Tower of Lies 105
The Divine Woman – From Bernhardt to Garbo 109