Chapter 8 - Crossing the Pond

This episode was written using the following references:

• Frank Nugent, “War’s Double-Entry”, New York Times, 17th September 1939, section A, p. 137
• Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies [New York: Random House, 1975], p. 253
• University of California Television (UCTV). (2017, April 2). Expanded Hitchcock: Rebecca [Video]. YouTube. Retrieved September 25, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY3SKrxnIMo
• Schatz, T., 1999. Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
• Holden, Anthony. (1993). The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood’s Academy Awards. Little Brown and Company.
• Kliman, B. W. (1983). A Palimpsest for Olivier’s “Hamlet.” Comparative Drama, 17(3), 243–253.

For more British films that carved out overseas success, watch:

• Brief Encounter (1945) dir. David Lean
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) dir. Gabriel Pascal
• Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean
• The Red Shoes (1948) dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

And for more examples of European directors used Gothic elements in their noir films, seek out:

• Shadow of a Doubt (1943) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
• Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
• The Woman in the Window (1944) dir. Fritz Lang
• Phantom Lady (1944) dir. Robert Siodmak