Cinema Journal (2008) - Ingrid Bergman's Star Persona and the Alien Space of "Stromboli"
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- article: Ingrid Bergman's Star Persona and the Alien Space of "Stromboli"
- author(s): Ora Gelley
- journal: Cinema Journal (01/Dec/2008)
- issue: volume 47, issue 2, pages 26-51
- DOI: 10.1353/cj.2008.0008
- journal ISSN: 0009-7101
- publisher: University of Texas Press
- keywords: Academy Awards, Actors, Alfred Hitchcock, André Bazin, British Film Institute, Cahiers du Cinéma, Cary Grant, Chicago, Illinois, Claude Chabrol, Claude Rains, David Denby, David O. Selznick, Donald Spoto, Dramatic arts, Female film star, Film, François Truffaut, Grace Kelly, Hitchcock's Films (1965) by Robin Wood, Hitchcock's Films Revisited (1989) by Robin Wood, Hitchcock: Past and Future (2004) edited by Richard Allen & Sam Ishii-Gonzales, Hitchcock: The First Forty-Four Films (1979) by Éric Rohmer & Claude Chabrol, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, John Fawell, Joseph McElhaney, Laura Mulvey, London, England, Marlene Dietrich, Motion picture directors & producers, New York City, New York, Notorious (1946), Pascal Bonitzer, Richard Allen, Roberto Rossellini, Robin Wood, Sam Ishii-Gonzales, San Francisco, California, Screen (1975) - Visual pleasure and narrative cinema, Spellbound (1945), Stromboli, Tania Modleski, Terra di Dio, The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (2005) by Tania Modleski, Tippi Hedren, Under Capricorn (1949), Universum Film AG, Éric Rohmer
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Abstract
This essay looks at the trajectory of Ingrid Bergman's star persona, from 1930s Sweden to 1940s Hollywood to Rossellini's Italy, with particular focus on the later part of the 1940s in Hollywood and on the transformation of her star persona in the first film she made with Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, land of God, released in 1949.