Devastation and Laughter - Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Transliteration, Translations, 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

About the author

Annie Gérin is a professor in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Summary

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin.

Product details

• Authors: Annie G rin, Annie G?rin, Annie G¿n, Annie Gerin, Annie Gérin
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2018
• EAN: 9781487502430
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0243-0
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europäische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Militärgeschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Revolutionen, Aufstände, Rebellionen, Schlachten und Feldzüge