The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters by Salys, Rimgaila

The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841502823)

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The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters by Salys, Rimgaila

The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters

$35.50
The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters by Salys, Rimgaila

The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters

$35.50
Format: Paperback
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Grigorii Aleksandrov's musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and '40s. Drawing on studio documents, press materials, and interviews with surviving film crew members, The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov presents the untold production history of the films. Salys explores how Aleksandrov's cinema preserved the paradigms of the American musical, including its comedic tradition, using both to inscribe the foundation myths of the Stalin era in the national consciousness. As the first major study to situate these films in the cultural context of the era, this book will be essential to courses on Russian cinema and Soviet culture.

Author: Rimgaila Salys
ISBN-10: 1841502820
ISBN-13: 9781841502823
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.80w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/15/2010 pg. 19
By Rimgaila Salys
By Rimgaila Salys
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Rimgaila Salys is professor of Russian studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a specialist in twentieth-century Russian literature, film, and culture.

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