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Rhetoric in film: a cultural semiotical study of Greta Garbo in "Ninotchka".

Cabak Rédei, Anna LU orcid (2006) In Film International 4(5). p.52-61
Abstract
The essay shows how the interplay between Garbo's off screen and on screen personas were used in the making of "Ninotchka" (1939), and how the film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, connected to contemporary social and cultural norms focusing on the understanding of gender types.
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Cultural semiotics, Film semiotics, gender.
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Film International
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4
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5
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52 - 61
publisher
Intellect Ltd.
ISSN
1651-6826
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English
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