The Love Goddesses (lecture)

Marlene Dietrich as Amy Jolly in Morocco.

Antti Alanen: Valkokankaan seksipommit. My lecture in the Cinema and Sexuality lecture series arranged by the Film Society of the Helsinki Students' Association. Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 5 Feb 2010.

The views of Edgar Morin, Richard Dyer, and Richard deCordova.
The birth of the star system, its development, and the end of the classical star system in the 1960s.
Edgar Morin's view of from gods to mortals: from the divine stars to profane ones.
A new age of celebrity culture and a new level of star power.
The feminist criticism: the stereotyping of women, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape view.
The sex star as object and subject.
There have been no magnificent new sex stars of the cinema since the 1960s, of the caliber of Garbo, Dietrich, and Monroe.
The great legendary stars of today are pop stars. No film star's death would be world news in the same way as Michael Jackson's. No film star galvanizes global audiences like Madonna.
With the legalization of hard core pornography since 1969 mainstream cinema lost much sexual steam. There are also stars in pornography, thousands of them, but they are less unique, more expendable.
Ten profiles: Asta Nielsen, Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Sophia Loren, Sharon Stone.
Sharon Stone created only one mythic sex role (in Basic Instinct), but there are no directors in Hollywood today who like Stiller and Sternberg could have directed her in further films of equal charismatic power.

Followed by a screening of The Love Goddesses (1965), by Saul Turell and Graeme Ferguson, with William K. Everson, Paul Killiam and Gideon Bachmann among the contributors, one of the all-time most wonderful compilation films, with fascinating clips from films some of which are very hard to see (A Woman of the World, The Love of Sunya... ).

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FINNISH FILM ARCHIVE PROGRAM NOTE

Suomen elokuva-arkisto

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The Love Goddesses

Rakkauden jumalattaret / Kärleks gudinnor

Yhdysvallat 1965. Tuotantoyhtiö: Paramount Pictures. Tuottaja: Graeme Ferguson, Saul J. Turell. Ohjaus: Saul J. Turell. Käsikirjoitus: Saul J. Turell, Graeme Ferguson. Musiikki: Percy Faith. Leikkaus: Nat Greene, Howard Kuperman. Pääosissa: Carl King (kertoja). Helsingin ensiesitys: 9.7.1965 Maxim, maahantuoja:  Filmipaja Oy / Mäkelä – tarkastusnumero 72107 – K16 – 2165 m / 79 min 

 

Elokuvahistorialliset kompilaatiot ja antologiat ovat parhaimmillaan itsenäisiä taiteellisia saavutuksia. Antologioiden aateliin kuuluu Graeme Fergusonin ja Saul J. Turellin The Love Goddesses (1965) jossa asiantuntijoina olivat William K. Everson, Paul Killiam ja James A. Lebenthal. Siihen sisältyy näytteitä mm. seuraavista elokuvista:

Josef von Sternberg: Vaalea Venus (Blonde Venus, 1932) ja

Josef von Sternberg: Morocco (Morocco, 1930) Marlene Dietrich

Thomas A. Edison: The Kiss (1896) May Irwin ja John C. Rice

D. W. Griffith: True Heart Susie (1919) Lillian Gish

Wesley Ruggles: Leopard Woman (1920) Louise Glaum

J. Gordon Edwards: Kleopatra (Cleopatra, 1917) Theda Bara

D. W. Griffith: Suvaitsemattomuus (Intolerance, 1916) Mae Marsh

Cecil B. DeMille: Norsunluukuningas (The Cheat, 1915) Fannie Ward ja Sessue Hayakawa

George Melford: Sheikki (The Sheik, 1921) Agnes Ayres ja Rudolph Valentino

Victor Fleming: Hula (Hula, 1927) Clara Bow

Fred Niblo: Verta ja hiekkaa (Blood and Sand, 1922) Nita Naldi

Malcolm St. Clair: Maailmannainen (Woman of the World, 1925) Pola Negri

D. W. Griffith: Paholaisen surut (The Sorrows of Satan, 1926) Lya De Putti

Albert Parker: Kohtalon kuvastin (The Love of Sunya, 1927) Gloria Swanson

G. W. Pabst: Kadotetun päiväkirja (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, 1929) Louise Brooks

Gustav Machaty: Hurmio (Extase, 1933) Hedy Lamarr

G. W. Pabst: Kadonnut maailma (L'Atlantide, 1932) Brigitte Helm

Erik A. Petschler: Maailman Matti (Luffar-Petter, 1922) Greta Garbo

Frank Capra: Platinapommi (Platinum Blonde, 1931) Jean Harlow

Michael Curtiz: Cabin in the Cotton (1932) Bette Davis

Mervyn LeRoy: Kultakalat 1933 ( Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933) Ruby Keeler ja Dick Powell

Wesley Ruggles: Mies minua varten (No Man of Her Own, 1932) Carole Lombard ja Clark Gable

William A. Seiter: Professional Sweetheart (1933) Ginger Rogers ja Norman Foster

Rouben Mamoulian: Rakasta minua tänä yönä (Love Me Tonight, 1932) Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy, Maurice Chevalier ja Charles Ruggles

Wesley Ruggles: En ole enkeli (I'm No Angel, 1933) Mae West

Alfred E. Green: Vaalea viettelijätär (Baby Face, 1933) Barbara Stanwyck

Henry Hathaway: Varkain paratiisiin (Now and Forever, 1934) Shirley Temple

Mervyn LeRoy: Olen syytön (They Won't Forget, 1937) Lana Turner

Raoul Walsh: Svengiä kerrakseen (College Swing, 1938) Betty Grable

George Archainbaud: Viidakkorakkautta (Her Jungle Love, 1938) Dorothy Lamour ja Ray Milland

Charles Vidor: Gilda (Gilda, 1946) Rita Hayworth

George Stevens: Paikka auringossa (A Place in the Sun, 1951) Elizabeth Taylor ja Montgomery Clift

Billy Wilder: Piukat paikat (Some Like It Hot, 1959) Marilyn Monroe

Melville Shavelson: Romanssi Caprilla (It Started in Naples, 1960) Sophia Loren ja Clark Gable

J. Lee Thompson: Kohtalokas kotiinpaluu (Tiger Bay, 1959) Hayley Mills ja Horst Buchholz

William Wyler: Loma Roomassa (Roman Holiday, 1953) Audrey Hepburn ja Gregory Peck

Jack Clayton: Tilaa huipulla (Room at the Top, 1958) Heather Sears ja Simone Signoret

Claude Autant-Lara: Rakkaus on kohtaloni (En cas de malheur, 1958) Brigitte Bardot

Val Guest: Café Expresso Bongo (Expresso Bongo, 1959) Sylvia Syms

Cecil B. DeMille: Cleopatra (Cleopatra, 1934) Claudette Colbert

AA 1991