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Imitations of life : two centuries of melodrama in Russia / edited by Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melodrama, Russian--History and criticism.
- Melodrama, Russian.
- Russian drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- Russian drama.
- Russian drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Theater--Russia--History.
- Theater.
- Popular culture--Russia.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Other Title:
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Uses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture--in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period.
- Contents:
- The misanthrope, the orphan, and the magpie: imported melodrama in the twilight of serfdom / Richard Stites
- Melodramatizing Russia: nineteenth-century views from the West / Julie A. Buckler
- The importance of being unhappy, or, why she died / Beth Holmgren
- Melodrama as counterliterature? Count Amori's response to three scandalous novels / Otto Boele
- Home was never where the heart was: domestic dystopias in Russia's silent movie melodramas / Louise McReynolds
- Alcohol is our enemy!: Soviet temperance melodramas of the 1920's / Julie A. Cassiday
- Melodrama and the myth of the Soviet Union / Lars T. Lih
- Soviet family melodrama of the 1940s and 1950s: from Wait for me to The cranes are flying / Alexander Prokhorov
- Conventional melodrama, innovative theater, and a melodramatic society: Pavel Kohout's Such a love at the Moscow University student theater / Susan Costanzo
- Between public and private: revolution and melodrama in Nikita Mikhalkov's Slave of love / Joan Neuberger
- Playing dead: the operatics of celebrity funerals, or, the ultimate silent part / Helena Goscilo.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8057-9
- 9786612903502
- 1-282-90350-0
- OCLC:
- 508263179
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