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Journal Article
Émile Zola, Kozintsev and Trauberg, and Film as Department Store
2009
Overview
Nesbet examines Grigorii Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's use of Emile Zola's 1883 novel Au Bonheur des Dames as a basis for their 1929 film Novyi Vavilon. Zola's novel was, on the face of it, completely unsuitable, perhaps the least suitable of all of Zola's novels for revolutionary appropriation. It is telling that two other remakes of Au Bonheur des Dames contemporaneous to Kozintsev and Trauberg's film both are set in a thoroughly capitalist \"today\" and both arrive (as we shall see later) at \"happy ends\" without any recourse to revolution whatsoever: Julien Duvivier's 1930 Au Bonheur des Dames and the American film that canonized Clara Bow as the \"It\" girl in 1927: It, directed by Clarence Badger. To judge from the company it kept, Novyi Vavilon was on shaky ideological ground when it repaired to Zola's department store novel as a basis for revolutionary film.
