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Inside Soviet film satire: laughter with a lash

Horton, Andrew, 1944-

Year: c1993.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Foreword: If life itself is a satire . . .

Acknowledgments

Editor's note

Introduction: Carnival versus lashing laughter in Soviet cinema

Part One The long view: Soviet satire in context

I Soviet film satire yesterday and today

II A Russian Munchausen: Aesopian translation

III "We don't know what to laugh at": Comedy and satire in Soviet cinema (from The Miracle Worker to St. Jorgen's Feast Day)

IV An ambivalent NEP satire of bourgeois aspirations: The Kiss of Mary Pickford

V Closely watched drains: Notes by a dilettante on the Soviet absurdist film

Part Two Middle-distance shots: The individual satire considered

VI A subtextual reading of Kuleshov's satire the Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)

VII The strange case of the making of Volga, Volga

VIII Circus of 1936: Ideology and entertainment under the big top

IX Black humor in Soviet cinema

X Laughter beyond the mirror: Humor and satire in the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky

XI The films of Eldar Shengelaya: From subtle humor to biting satire

Part Three Close-ups: Glasnost and Soviet satire

XII A forgotten flute and remembered popular tradition

XIII Perestroika of kitsch: Sergei Soloviev's Black Rose, Red Rose

XIV Carnivals bright, dark, and grotesque in the glasnost satires of Mamin, Mustafayev, and Shakhnazarov

XV Quick takes on Yuri Mamin's Fountain from the perspective of a Romanian

XVI "One should begin with zero": A discussion with satiric filmmaker Yuri Mamin

Filmography

Contributors

Index

reviews

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Title:

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

Author:

Horton, Andrew, 1944-

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Inside Soviet film satire : laughter with a lash / editor, Andrew Horton.
Horton, Andrew, 1944-
Cambridge [UK]: Cambridge University Press, c1993.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07561

Subject Headings:

• Comedy films -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism -- Congresses
• Satire, Soviet -- History and criticism -- Congresses
• Communism and satire -- Congresses

Notes:

• Papers from the New Orleans Conference on the Spirit of Satire in Soviet Cinema held at Loyola University.
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