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Inside Soviet film satire: laughter with a lash
Andrew Horton
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Frontmatter
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Foreword: If life itself is a satire . . . (DR. KIRILL RAZLOGOV, page vii)
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Editor's note (page xi)
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Introduction: Carnival versus lashing laughter in Soviet cinema (ANDREW HORTON, page 1)
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Part One The long view: Soviet satire in context
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I Soviet film satire yesterday and today (VALENTIN TOLSTYKH (TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY ANDREW ANDREYEV), page 17)
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II A Russian Munchausen: Aesopian translation (KEVIN MOSS, page 20)
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III "We don't know what to laugh at": Comedy and satire in Soviet cinema (from The Miracle Worker to St. Jorgen's Feast Day) (DENISE J. YOUNGBLOOD, page 36)
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IV An ambivalent NEP satire of bourgeois aspirations: The Kiss of Mary Pickford (PETER CHRISTENSEN, page 48)
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V Closely watched drains: Notes by a dilettante on the Soviet absurdist film (MICHAEL BRASHINSKY, page 58)
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Part Two Middle-distance shots: The individual satire considered
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VI A subtextual reading of Kuleshov's satire the Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) (VLADA PETRIC, page 65)
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VII The strange case of the making of Volga, Volga (MAYA TUROVSKAYA (TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY ANDREW ANDREYEV), page 75)
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VIII Circus of 1936: Ideology and entertainment under the big top (MOIRA RATCHFORD, page 83)
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IX Black humor in Soviet cinema (OLGA REIZEN, page 94)
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X Laughter beyond the mirror: Humor and satire in the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (VIDA T. JOHNSON, page 98)
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XI The films of Eldar Shengelaya: From subtle humor to biting satire (JULIE CHRISTENSEN, page 105)
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Part Three Close-ups: Glasnost and Soviet satire
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XII A forgotten flute and remembered popular tradition (GRETA N. SLOBIN, page 117)
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XIII Perestroika of kitsch: Sergei Soloviev's Black Rose, Red Rose (SVETLANA BOYM, page 125)
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XIV Carnivals bright, dark, and grotesque in the glasnost satires of Mamin, Mustafayev, and Shakhnazarov (ANDREW HORTON, page 138)
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XV Quick takes on Yuri Mamin's Fountain from the perspective of a Romanian (ANDREI CODRESCU, page 149)
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XVI "One should begin with zero": A discussion with satiric filmmaker Yuri Mamin (ANDREW HORTON, page 154)
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Filmography (page 157)
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Contributors (page 165)
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Index (page 167)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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SEEJ | 39.2 (Summer 1995): 308-309 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/309399 |
SEER | 74.3 (Jul. 1996): 524-526 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4212178 |
FQ | 47.4 (Summer 1994): 45-46 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1212988 |
EAS | 48.1 (Jan. 1996): 163-165 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/152920 |
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Published: c1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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