A passion for extremes
Hollywood's Cold War romance with Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4779798 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dana Heller (Old Dominion University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-110 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1477570005048081 |
| OpenAlex | W2074172834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article examines images of Russians in Hollywood film from 1939 to 1990, with a focus on romantic narratives depicting Russians and Americans in love. The article traces a pattern of attachment to Russia as a trope that helps reveal the changing and contradictory contours of American myths of nationhood. The author argues that films such as Ninotchka, Moscow on the Hudson and The Russia House refashion such myths by rhetorically orchestrating structures of society and history, gender and sexuality, desire and consumption, towards the manufacture of a democratic consensus that links the private body to the national body, or the fulfillment of private individuals to the fulfillment of the national ideal
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cold war · Democracy · Hollywood · Human sexuality · Literature · Movie theater · Mythology · Narrative · Passion · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |