Naslov
The October Garbo: Classical Hollywood and the Revolution

Autori
Jukić, Tatjana

Izvornik
Studia litterarum (2500-4247) 2 (2017), 2; 56-63

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Classical Hollywood, Ernst Lubitsch, Greta Garbo, the October Revolution, Leo Tolstoy

Sažetak
I propose to discuss Ernst Lubitsch’s decision to tailor Ninotchka (1939), his film with Greta Garbo, to Garbo in the role of a Soviet revolutionary, which — given the overwhelming importance of Garbo to classical Hollywood — is how the October Revolution is situated at the heart of American cinema at the time while Garbo’s proverbial cinematic melancholia is shown to entail the structures of affect residual to revolutions. Moreover, by divorcing Garbo’s revolutionary melancholia from melodrama and attaching it to comedy, Lubitsch extricates this particular psychopolitics from the fact of genre, now as an insight into the construction of film. Finally, I show how Lubitsch engages Russian literature, especially Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, as a code-holder for Hollywood iconicity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti

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