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Inside Soviet Film Satire (Cambridge Studies in Film)
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Author(s)Horton, Andrew
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521021073
ISBN-139780521021074
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank6,449,510
CategoryPerforming Arts
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter with a Lash is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet, American, and Canadian scholars and film commentators. It is the first in-depth examination of an important genre within the Soviet film tradition. From its origins, humor and satire have been closely linked in Soviet cinema. Nowhere in this tradition is there the pure comic genre typified in the West in films by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton; by contrast, Soviet comedy can best be described as "laughter with a lash." Films made during the early years of the communist regime depicted characters and situations at a moment when the promise of socialism had yet to be realized. By the final years of totalitarian rule, filmmakers had found ways to create satirical films that powerfully indicted communism itself.













