Annie Gérin

Devastation and Laughter

Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781487502430
• ISBN-10: 1487502435
• Artikelnr.: 47972617

Autorenporträt

Annie Gérin is a professor in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Transliteration, Translations, Dates
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Devastation and Laughter
1: Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter
2: Soviet Satirical Print Culture, a Serious Affair
3: Laughter in the Ring, in the Street and on Stage: The Emergence of a
"Satirical Scene"
4: Laughter on the Silver Screen: From Satire to Optimistic Comedy
5: The Strategies and Targets of Satire
6: The Rhetorics of Satire and Socialist Realism
Conclusion
Appendix: "On Laughter" (1931)
Notes
Bibliography
Index