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Inside Soviet Film Satire

Inside Soviet Film Satire

Horton, Andrew
Rothman, William
Andrew, Dudley

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Film

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521021073
ISBN13: 9780521021074
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 13 2005
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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