Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union : Krokodil's Political Cartoons /

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"After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. In this new atmosphere of freedom, Russia's satirical magazine Krokodil (The Crocodile) became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet graphic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Etty, John, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Krokodil.
Russian wit and humor, Pictorial.
Politics and government > Caricatures and cartoons.
Political satire, Russian.
Politics and government.
ART > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
Humour par l'image russe.
Political satire, Russian > 20th century > History and criticism.
Soviet Union.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > Caricatures et dessins humoristiques.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > Caricatures and cartoons.
Caricatures politiques.
Political cartoons.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Caricatures and cartoons.
political cartoons.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Explaining Krokodil Magazine and the Soviet media system
  • Krokodil's format and visual language
  • A "school for laughter?": carnivalesque humor and menippean satire in Krokodil
  • The co-creation of Krokodil Magazine
  • Participatory reading: the forms and consumption of Soviet satire
  • Making the risible visible: the performative construction of non-Soviet ideology in Krokodil
  • Krokodil's hollow center: the performance of affirmation
  • Becoming Soviet in Krokodil.

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