Inside Soviet film satire : laughter with a lash / editor, Andrew Horton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horton, Andrew, 1944-

Series:

Cambridge studies in film.

Cambridge studies in film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comedy films--Soviet Union--History and criticism--Congresses.

Comedy films.

Satire, Soviet--History and criticism--Congresses.

Satire, Soviet.

Communism and satire--Congresses.

Communism and satire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 171 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Summary:

Inside Soviet Film Satire is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet, American and Canadian scholars and film commentators. It is the first indepth examination of an important genre within the Soviet film tradition. From its origins, humour and satire have been closely linked in Soviet cinema. Nowhere in this tradition is there the pure comic genre typified in the West in films by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton; by contrast, Soviet comedy can best be described as 'laughter with a lash'. Films made during the early years of the communist regime depicted characters and situations at a moment when the promise of socialism had yet to be realised. By the final years of totalitarian rule, filmmakers had found ways to create satirical films that powerfully indicted communism itself.

Contents:

Soviet film satire yesterday and today / Valentin Tolstykh

A Russian Munchausen : Aesopian translation / Kevin Moss

"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

An ambivalent NEP satire of bourgeois aspirations : The kiss of Mary Pickford / Peter Christensen

Closely watched drains : notes by a dilettante on the Soviet absurdist film / Michael Brashinsky

A subtextual reading of Kuleshov's satire The extraordinary adventures of Mr. West in the land of the Bolsheviks (1924) / Vlada Petric

The strange case of the making of Volga, Volga / Maya Turovskaya

Circus of 1936 : ideology and entertainment under the big top / Moira Ratchford

Black humor in Soviet cinema / Olga Reizen

Laughter beyond the mirror : huor and satire in the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky / Vida T. Johnson.

(cont.) The films of Eldar Shengelaya : from subtle humor to biting satire / Julie Christensen

A forgotten flute and remembered popular tradition / Greta N. Slobin

Perestroika of kitch : Sergei Soloviev's Black rose, red rose / Svetlana Boym

Carnivals bright, dark and grotesque in the Glasnost satires of Mamin, Mustafayev, and Shakhnazarov / Andrew Horton

Quick takes on Yuri Mamin's Fountain from the perspective of a Romanian / Andrei Codrescu

"One should begin withzero" : a discussion with satiric filmaker Yuri Mamin / Andrew Horton.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Filmography: p. 157-164.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780511881541

0511881541

9781139085588

1139085581

9780511527135

0511527136

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07561 hdl