Movie Stars and Authority
Abstract
Bulgakowa writes about the development of the star system in the first days of the Soviet Union. Warnings were sent not to instil nostalgia for the incomprehensible in the working class. Dreams were set by the authorities and concerned realistic goals. Therefore, the image of cinema stars was to be properly modified from an ideological perspective. Bulgakowa writes about new masculine and feminine models and newly-formulated family functions, and even sexuality as no field was outside of state control. Promiscuity, eroticism and a mad love, like images of attractive, elegant women and men, disappear from the discourse of the times. The coarse, folk and expressive type of beauty was compulsory; it was a far cry from traditional beauty standards.
- The text is a translation of the chapter Les beautés et le pouvoir from the volume Le cinéma “stalinien”: Questions d’histoire, ed. Natacha Laurent, Presses Universitaires du Mirail – La Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Toulouse 2003. © 2003 by Presses Universitaires du Mirail – La Cinémathèque de Toulouse.
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Soviet cinema, movie star, politicsReferences
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Oksana Bulgakowakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of California – Berkeley United States
Absolwentka wydziału filmoznawstwa moskiewskiego WGIKu. Wykładała literaturę słowiańską na Uniwersytecie Stanforda, na Uniwersytecie w Berkeley i Uniwersytecie Humboldta w Berlinie. Jest specjalistką w dziedzinie kina radzieckiego i rosyjskiego oraz wschodnioeuropejskiego. Zajmuje się losami rosyjskich emigrantów w Hollywood i twórczością Eisensteina. Opublikowała m in. książki: Siergiej Eisenstein: A Biography (2002, wyd. niem. 1996), Sergej Eisenstein – drei Utopien. Architekturentwürfe zur Filmtheorie (1996), FEKS – die Fabrik des exzentrischen Schauspielers, 1921-1929 (1996).
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