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" Imitations of life : "
edited by Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger.
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946854
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b701224
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| Title & Author
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Imitations of life : : two centuries of melodrama in Russia /\ edited by Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2002.
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Duke backfile
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1 online resource (x, 338 pages) :: illustrations
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0822327805
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: 0822327902
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: 0822380579
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: 9780822327806
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: 9780822327905
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: 9780822380573
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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Uses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture--in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period.
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Melodrama, Russian-- History and criticism.
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Popular culture-- Russia.
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Russian drama-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Russian drama-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Theater-- Russia-- History.
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HISTORY / Europe / Russia the Former Soviet Union
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Melodrama, Russian.
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Popular culture.
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Russian drama.
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Theater.
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Melodrama's.
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Melodramatische films.
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Russia.
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| Dewey Classification
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891.72/309
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| LC Classification
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PG3089.M44I53 2002eb
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24.22bcl
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McReynolds, Louise,1952-
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Neuberger, Joan,1953-
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