| Description |
x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index. |
| Subject |
Melodrama, Russian -- History and criticism.
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Melodrama, Russian. |
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Russian drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian drama. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Russian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Theater -- Russia -- History.
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Theater. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
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Popular culture -- Russia.
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Popular culture. |
| Added Author |
McReynolds, Louise, 1952-
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Neuberger, Joan, 1953-
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| ISBN |
0822327902 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822327805 cloth alkaline paper |
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