Audiences and Ideological Work in the "Dream Factory": Halldór Laxness and Cinematic Modernity

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI:10.5406/scanstud.93.4.0443
Björn Þór Vilhjálmsson
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Halldór Laxness was twentyfive years old when he arrived in Los Angeles, California, in the Fall of 1927. The movies, and they were the reason he came, were not much older. While it might seem facile to speak of the congruence of youthful energies, Laxness’s arrival in L.A. in the late 1920s was not a coincidence. From shortly after its inception, the world film market had been characterized by international competition for global motion picture prominence, a struggle that had been proceeding along a variety of avenues for close to 2 decades but was, by the time of Laxness’s arrival, pretty much settled in Hollywood’s favor (Thompson 1985, 124–48). For those who sought a career in the movies, there were few places that could equal the luster and promise of Hollywood.2
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观众与“梦工厂”中的思想工作:哈多尔·拉克斯内斯与电影现代性
1927年秋天,霍尔德·拉克斯内斯抵达加利福尼亚州洛杉矶时,年仅25岁。电影,也正是他来的原因,并没有老多少。虽然说年轻人的能量是一致的似乎很容易,但拉克尼斯在20世纪20年代末来到洛杉矶并不是巧合。从成立后不久,世界电影市场就以争夺全球电影知名度的国际竞争为特征,这场斗争在近20年的时间里一直在各种途径上进行,但在拉克尼斯到来时,几乎已经对好莱坞有利(Thompson 1985124-48)。对于那些想从事电影事业的人来说,几乎没有什么地方能与好莱坞相提并论
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