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020			_a9781487515324 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aNX556 _b.D483 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aGérin, Annie, _d1969- _e1
245	1	0	_aDevastation and laughter : _bsatire, power, and culture in the early Soviet state, 1920s-1930s / _cAnnie Gérin.
260			_aToronto ; _aBuffalo (N.Y.) : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource.
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520	0		_aIn Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized. The author sheds light on the theoretical texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present subjects, themes, and practice. Devastation and Laughter is the first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By introducing important bodies of work that have largely been overlooked in the fields of art history, film and theatre history, Annie Gérin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.
505	0	0	_aCover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Transliteration, Translation, Dates; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Devastation and Laughter; 1 Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter; 2 Soviet Satirical Print Culture: A Serious Affair; 3 Laughter in the Ring, in the Street, and on Stage: The Emergence of a Satirical Scene; 4 Laughter on the Silver Screen: From Satire to Optimistic Comedy; 5 The Strategies and Targets of Satire; 6 The Rhetorics of Satire and Socialist Realism; Conclusion; Appendix: "On Laughter" (1931); Notes; Bibliography; Index
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650		0	_aArts, Soviet.
650		0	_aArt and state _zSoviet Union.
650		0	_aSatire, Soviet.
650		0	_aSatire in art.
650		0	_aLaughter _zSoviet Union.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1944370&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell