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Devastation and laughter : satire, power, and culture in the early Soviet state, 1920s-1930s / Annie Gérin.
LIBRA NX556.A1 G47 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gérin, Annie, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satire, Soviet.
- Arts, Soviet.
- Art and state.
- Laughter.
- Soviet Union--Intellectual life--1917-1970.
- Soviet Union.
- Intellectual life.
- Laughter--Soviet Union.
- Art and state--Soviet Union.
- Satire in art.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter p. 19
- 2 Soviet Satirical Print Culture: A Serious Affair p. 41
- 3 Laughter in the Ring, in the Street, and on Stage: The Emergence of a Satirical Scene p. 74
- 4 Laughter on the Silver Screen: From Satire to Optimistic Comedy p. 100
- 5 The Strategies and Targets of Satire p. 124
- 6 The Rhetoric's of Satire and Socialist Realism p. 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781487502430
- 1487502435
- OCLC:
- 980732788
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