Devastation and laughter : satire, power, and culture in the early Soviet state, 1920s-1930s /

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In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theoriz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gérin, Annie, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo (N.Y.) : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Temas:
1917-1970
Arts, Soviet.
Art and state > Soviet Union.
Satire, Soviet.
Satire in art.
Laughter > Soviet Union.
Arts soviétiques.
Art > Politique gouvernementale > URSS.
Satire soviétique.
Satire dans l'art.
Rire > URSS.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art and state.
Intellectual life.
Laughter.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life > 1917-1970.
URSS > Vie intellectuelle > 1917-1970.
Soviet Union.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Transliteration, Translation, Dates; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Devastation and Laughter; 1 Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter; 2 Soviet Satirical Print Culture: A Serious Affair; 3 Laughter in the Ring, in the Street, and on Stage: The Emergence of a Satirical Scene; 4 Laughter on the Silver Screen: From Satire to Optimistic Comedy; 5 The Strategies and Targets of Satire; 6 The Rhetorics of Satire and Socialist Realism; Conclusion; Appendix: "On Laughter" (1931); Notes; Bibliography; Index

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