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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 Anna Toropova. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford
This book investigates how the Stalinist state utilized cinema as a mechanism to engineer and regulate the emotional lives of Soviet citizens. Anna Toropova, a scholar of Russian and Soviet cinema, draws upon extensive archival research, contemporary journals, and film analysis to argue that genre cinema served as a sophisticated tool for emotional education. By examining the intersection of state ideology and affective response, she demonstrates how the regime sought to align individual feelings with the collective goals of the Soviet project.
What You Will Find
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Scholars in the field of Slavic studies and film history recognize this work as a rigorous examination of the intersection between state power and spectator psychology. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which provides a detailed look at how political regimes attempt to standardize human emotion through mass media.
Page Count:
256
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0192566822
ISBN-13:
9780192566829