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Author:   Louise McReynolds ,  Joan Neuberger
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780822327806

ISBN 10:   0822327805
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction / Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger 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 1920s / 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 Constanzo 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 Suggested Reading Contributors Index

Reviews

[A] talented and original group of scholars on Russian melodrama . . . . [A] fine job of asking new questions, examining well-known material from new perspectives, and applying a range of methodologies to a genre that benefits from such new analysis. . . . Imitations of Life is an excellent book that should appeal to professional historians and literary scholars, as well as to students enrolled in Russian studies courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. It offers much to those of us interested in adding a greater sense of texture to our understanding of the Russian cultural and social experience of the last two centuries. McReynolds, Neuberger, and their contributors should be congratulated for the their efforts. <br> <br> <br>--William Richardson, History: Review of New Books

[A] talented and original group of scholars on Russian melodrama . . . . [A] fine job of asking new questions, examining well-known material from new perspectives, and applying a range of methodologies to a genre that benefits from such new analysis. . . . Imitations of Life is an excellent book that should appeal to professional historians and literary scholars, as well as to students enrolled in Russian studies courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. It offers much to those of us interested in adding a greater sense of texture to our understanding of the Russian cultural and social experience of the last two centuries. McReynolds, Neuberger, and their contributors should be congratulated for the their efforts. --William Richardson, History: Review of New Books

Author Information

Louise McReynolds is Professor of History at the University of Hawai’i. Joan Neuberger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas.

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