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Devastation and Laughter : Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)
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Devastation and Laughter : Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) / Annie Gérin.
ISBN
9781487515324
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
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In English.
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Summary
In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized. The author sheds light on the theoretical texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present subjects, themes, and practice. Devastation and Laughter is the first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By introducing important bodies of work that have largely been overlooked in the fields of art history, film and theatre history, Annie Gérin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Invocation by Laughter
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Devastation and Laughter
Chapter One. Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter
Chapter Two. Soviet Satirical Print Culture: A Serious Affair
Chapter Three. Laughter in the Ring, in the Street, and on Stage: The Emergence of a Satirical Scene
Chapter Four. Laughter on the Silver Screen: From Satire to Optimistic Comedy
Chapter Five. The Strategies and Targets of Satire
Chapter Six. The Rhetorics of Satire and Socialist Realism
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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