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Imitations of life :

0822327805

0822327902

0822380579

9780822327806

9780822327905

9780822380573

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Imitations of life :

[Book]

two centuries of melodrama in Russia /

edited by Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger.

Durham :

Duke University Press,

2002.

1 online resource (x, 338 pages) :

illustrations

Duke backfile

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.

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.

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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.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

JSTOR

22573/ctv11qr5xw

Imitations of life.

0822327805

Melodrama, Russian-- History and criticism.

Popular culture-- Russia.

Russian drama-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Russian drama-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Theater-- Russia-- History.

HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Melodrama, Russian.

Melodrama's.

Melodramatische films.

Popular culture.

Russian drama.

Theater.

Russia.

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DRA-- 004000

HIS-- 032000

McReynolds, Louise,1952-

Neuberger, Joan,1953-

20201207165602.0

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