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.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2002.
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Series: | Duke backfile
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.