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Imitations of life : two centuries of melodrama in Russia /

Uses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture--in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McReynolds, Louise, 1952-, Neuberger, Joan, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:Duke backfile
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The misanthrope, the orphan, and the magpie: imported melodrama in the twilight of serfdom / Richard Stites
  • Melodramatizing Russia: nineteenth-century views from the West / Julie A. Buckler
  • The importance of being unhappy, or, why she died / Beth Holmgren
  • Melodrama as counterliterature? Count Amori's response to three scandalous novels / Otto Boele
  • Home was never where the heart was: domestic dystopias in Russia's silent movie melodramas / Louise McReynolds
  • Alcohol is our enemy!: Soviet temperance melodramas of the 1920's / Julie A. Cassiday
  • Melodrama and the myth of the Soviet Union / Lars T. Lih
  • Soviet family melodrama of the 1940s and 1950s: from Wait for me to The cranes are flying / Alexander Prokhorov
  • Conventional melodrama, innovative theater, and a melodramatic society: Pavel Kohout's Such a love at the Moscow University student theater / Susan Costanzo
  • Between public and private: revolution and melodrama in Nikita Mikhalkov's Slave of love / Joan Neuberger
  • Playing dead: the operatics of celebrity funerals, or, the ultimate silent part / Helena Goscilo.