McReynolds / Neuberger Imitations of Life

Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8057-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McReynolds, Louise

Neuberger, Joan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stites, Richard

Buckler, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger

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 1920s / 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 Constanzo

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

Suggested Reading

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Louise McReynolds is Professor of History at the University of Hawai’i.Joan Neuberger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas.