Title: Greta Garbo, her transgressions and unconventional ways on and off screen
Source document: Brno studies in English. 2008, vol. 34, iss. 1, pp. [105]-124
Extent
[105]-124
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ISSN1211-1791
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104255
Type: Article
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Abstract(s)
The paper discusses Greta Garbo's contribution to US film history. It argues that Garbo's role in American cinema is unique from various points of view but most of all because she was an unconventional, sometimes even transgressing (intentionally acting against what is expected or customary), filmic persona. This stance is argued for and is backed by an overview of her most outstanding cinematic performances and (some of) her most-acknowledged films with allusions to her other works as well. It is claimed that Greta Garbo's roles were mostly of a transgressing sort and the characters she impersonated were mostly unconventional or even "deviant", thus, she represented a quite specific cinematic persona through these roles of transgression such as being a prostitute, a (female) spy, a queen of ambiguous sexuality and gender etc. while she herself and her life were and still are a subject of a lot of controversies likewise.
Note
Název článku v tištěném obsahu: Greta Garbo: a transgressing filmic persona
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[17] Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan (1980) The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale University Press.
[18] Goulding, Edmund (dir.) (1927) Love. Written by Frances Marion. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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[20] Hansen, Miriam (1991) 'Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification. Valentino and female spectatorship'. In: Christine Gledhill (ed.) Stardom. Industry of Desire. London and New York: Routledge, 259–282.
[21] Haskell, Molly (1974) From Reverence to Rape, The Treatment of Women in the Movies. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
[22] Heller, Reinhold (1981) The Earthly Chimera and the Femme Fatale: Fear of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Art. Exhibition catalogue. The David and Alfred Smart Gallery. University of Chicago. May 20 – June 21.
[23] Lubitsch, Ernst (dir.) (1939) Ninotchka. Written by Melchior Lengyel and Charles Brackett. MetroGoldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
[24] Mamoulian, Rouben (dir.) (1933) Queen Christina. written by S. N. Behrman and H. M. Harwood. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
[25] Niblo, Fred (dir.) (1926) The Temptress. written by Dorothy Farnum and Marian Ainslee. MetroGoldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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[27] Russo, Mary (1995) The Female Grotesque. London: Routledge.
[28] Sova, Dawn B. (1998) Women in Hollywood, From Vamp to Studio Head. New York: Fromm International.
[29] Staiger, Janet (1991) 'Seeing Stars'. In: Christine Gledhill (ed.) Stardom. Industry of Desire. London and New York: Routledge, 3–16.
[30] Szaloky, Melinda (2006) '"As you desire me": Reading "The Divine Garbo" through movement, silence and the sublime'. Film History 18 (2), 196–208. | DOI 10.2979/FIL.2006.18.2.196
[31] Tyler, Parker (1968) 'The Garbo Image'. In: Michael Conway et al. (eds.) The Films of Greta Garbo. New York: Citadel.
[32] Walton, Sam (1978) 'Immortals'. Saturday Evening Post Vol. 250, Issue 5, 36–38.
[33] Weiss, Andrea (1991) 'A Queer Feeling when I Look at You. Hollywood stars and lesbian spectatorship in the 1930s'. In: Christine Gledhill (ed.) Stardom. Industry of Desire. London and New York: Routledge, 283–299.
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