Inside Soviet Film Satire

Klappentext Inside Soviet Film Satire is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet! American and Canadian scholars and film commentators. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Long View: Soviet Satire in Context: 1. Soviet film satire yesterday and today; 2. A Russian Munchausen: Aesopian translation; 3. 'We don't know what to laugh at': comedy and satire in Soviet cinema; 4. An ambivalent NEP satire of bourgeois aspirations: A Kiss of Mary Pickford; 5. Closely watched drains: notes by a dilettante on the Soviet absurdist film; Part II. Middle Distance Shots: 6. A subtextual reading of Kuleshov's satire, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks; 7. The strange case of the making of Volga Volga; 8. Circus of 1936: ideology and entertainment under the big top; 9. Laughter beyond the mirror: humour and satire in the cinema?; 10. The films of Eldar Shengelaya: from subtle humour to biting satire; Part III. Close Ups On Glasnost and Satire: 11. A forgotten melody: Ryzanov and remembered popular traditions; 12. Perestroika of Kitsch: Vladimir Soloviev's Black Rose, Red Rose; 13. Carnivals bright, dark and grotesque in the Glasnost satires of Mamin, Mustafayev and Shaknazarov; 14. Quick takes on Yuri Mamin's The Fountain from the perspective of a Rumanian childhood; 15. 'One should begin with zero': a discussion with Yuri Mamin; Contributors; Filmography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Andrew Horton (Herausgeber), William Rothman (Herausgeber), Dudley Andrew (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Andrew Horton
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2005
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett
• EAN: 9780521021074
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02107-4
• Anzahl Seiten: 188
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Film; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Themen: Films, cinema; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); USSR, Soviet Union