Passport to Hollywood
Subtitle: Hollywood films, European directors
By: James Morrison.
Series: The SUNY series in postmodern culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Motion pictures -- United States -- European influences
Description: 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 close viewings, Morrison demonstrates new connections among modernism, postmodernism, and American movies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303) and index.