Imitations of life : two centuries of melodrama in Russia
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Imitations of life : two centuries of melodrama in Russia
Duke University Press, 2002
- : cloth
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  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Imitations of Life views Russian melodrama from the eighteenth century to today as an unexpectedly hospitable forum for considering social issues. The contributors follow the evolution of the genre through a variety of cultural practices and changing political scenarios. They argue that Russian audiences have found a particular type of comfort in this mode of entertainment that invites them to respond emotionally rather than politically to social turmoil.
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including plays, lachrymose novels, popular movies, and even highly publicized funerals and political trials, the essays in Imitations of Life argue that melodrama has consistently offered models of behavior for times of transition, and that contemporary televised versions of melodrama continue to help Russians cope with national events that they understand implicitly but are not yet able to articulate. In contrast to previous studies, this collection argues for a reading that takes into account the subtle but pointed challenges to national politics and to gender and class hierarchies made in melodramatic works from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collectively, the contributors shift and cross borders, illustrating how the cultural dismissal of melodrama as fundamentally escapist and targeted primarily at the politically disenfranchised has subverted the drama's own intrinsically subversive virtues.
Imitations of Life will interest students and scholars of contemporary Russia, and Russian history, literature, and theater.Contributors. Otto Boele, Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday, Susan Costanzo, Helena Goscilo, Beth Holmgren, Lars Lih, Louise McReynolds, Joan Neuberger, Alexander Prokhorov, Richard Stites
目次
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
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