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

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations Series Emotions in History Emotions in history. 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 Summary 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's battle to shape new forms of audience response Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2020) Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Influence Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast Subject 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 Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192566829 0192566822 9780191869051 0191869058 9780192566836 0192566830

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