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.

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• Authors: Andrew Horton
• Assisted by: Dudley Andrew (Editor), Andrew Horton (Editor), William Rothman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021074
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02107-4
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Film; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union