Feeling revolution : cinema, genre, and the politics of affect under Stalin

Feeling revolution : cinema, genre, and the politics of affect under Stalin / Anna Toropova.

Feeling Revolution explores the important role played by film genres in cultivating the Stalin era's distinctive emotional values and norms -- ranging from happiness to hatred for enemies. Toropova's exploration of a wide variety of primary sources brings to light the Soviet film industry&...

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Main Author: Toropova, Anna (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Emotions in history.
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Influence.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Political and social views.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953
Motion picture industry > Soviet Union > History.
Motion pictures > Soviet Union.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > Soviet Union.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Political aspects
Political and social views
Soviet Union
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Feeling Revolution
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Genre and Rivalling Hollywood
  • Emotional Meanings
  • Theorizing Affect
  • 1 Emotional Education
  • Re-evaluating Feeling: The Rise of a Developmental Conception of Emotion
  • Probing the Emotions of the Spectator
  • Genres of Feeling
  • Audience Guidance
  • Thematic Planning: Genre Film 'Soviet Style'
  • 2 'If we cannot laugh like that, then how can we laugh?' The 'Problem' of Stalinist Film Comedy
  • Learning to Laugh in a Different Way
  • Cheerful Comedy
  • 'The Most Underdeveloped Part of Soviet Cinematography'
  • 'Laughing Through Tears'
  • The 'Laughter of Victors'
  • An 'Impossible' Genre
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Learning to Hate Paranoia and Abjection in the Stalinist Thriller
  • The Conspiracy Thriller's Return
  • Abject Thrills
  • Polarizing 'Us' and 'Them' during the Cold War
  • The 'Dark Turn' in Soviet Cinema
  • Closer to the Enemy
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Manufacturing Happiness The Production Film and the Heroic Biography in the Era of 'Care for the Person'
  • Happiness, Labour, and the Stalin-Era Production Film
  • A New Type of Politics: Sergei Iutkevich's Miners and Dziga Vertov's Lullaby
  • The Heroic Biography: Mikhail Kalatozov's Valerii Chkalov
  • Re-Asserting 'the Happiness of Sacrifice' in the Post-War Period
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Pathos, Powerlessness, and the Persistence of the Melodramatic Mode
  • The 'Happy Ending' Drama of Everyday Life
  • Melodrama in the Guise of Literary Adaptation
  • Stalinist Gothic: Sergei Gerasimov's Masquerade
  • Melodrama at War
  • The Zhdanovshchina and the 'Waning of Affect'
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue Formless Feeling
  • Bibliography
  • I. Archives
  • II. Journals and Newspapers
  • III. Films
  • IV. Published Primary Sources and Document Collections
  • V. Secondary Sources and Theoretical Works
  • Index

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