{"title":"Le(s) Visage(s) de Garbo: Negotiating Discourses of Authorship and Stardom in Jacques Feyder's The Kiss (1929)","authors":"Barry Nevin","doi":"10.3366/nfs.2020.0274","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article examines The Kiss, émigré director Jacques Feyder's first Hollywood film, with two goals in mind. First, it considers the production and reception of the film, drawing on contemporary periodicals to illustrate Feyder's contribution to the film; second, drawing on Gilles Deleuze's conceptualisation of mirror images in cinema, it argues that The Kiss constitutes an important turning-point within Feyder's output as well as a key illustration of his authorial signature, looking towards the complex portrayals of women which feature in his most famous French films of the 1930s. Key to this analysis is how Feyder mobilizes mirrors to confront spectators with their own collusion in the construction of Greta Garbo's star persona in her films and portraits, and to open broader debates regarding the intersection between authorship and star personae.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"97-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nottingham French Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2020.0274","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article examines The Kiss, émigré director Jacques Feyder's first Hollywood film, with two goals in mind. First, it considers the production and reception of the film, drawing on contemporary periodicals to illustrate Feyder's contribution to the film; second, drawing on Gilles Deleuze's conceptualisation of mirror images in cinema, it argues that The Kiss constitutes an important turning-point within Feyder's output as well as a key illustration of his authorial signature, looking towards the complex portrayals of women which feature in his most famous French films of the 1930s. Key to this analysis is how Feyder mobilizes mirrors to confront spectators with their own collusion in the construction of Greta Garbo's star persona in her films and portraits, and to open broader debates regarding the intersection between authorship and star personae.
期刊介绍:
Nottingham French Studies is an externally-refereed academic journal which, from Volume 43, 2004, appears three times annually, with at least one special and one general issue each year. Its Editorial Board is drawn from members of the Department of French and Francophone Studies of the University of Nottingham, with the support of an International Advisory Board.