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Introduction – From Sjöström to Seastrom 15
equal success, whereas the delay in so doing is judged as being less on the forefront.
The Hollywood style thus remains the norm, the general criterion to
judge from.
In the case of Sjöström, I hope to nuance the picture of a European in Hollywood
a little in the following, by showing that, while “Seastrom” adapted well
enough to the new context to remain in Hollywood for seven years, elements of
the particular “Sjöström style” from the Swedish years also appear to have been
integrated and developed in the American context, modifying and varying the
Hollywood system, which does seem to have allowed a range of possibilities
within the given limits of the dream factory, and thus, in spite of its general
formulaic structure, does not appear as monolithic.