Devastation And Laughter
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Devastation And Laughter Satire Power And Culture In The Early Soviet State 1920s 1930s
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Author : Annie G?rin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-25
Devastation And Laughter Satire Power And Culture In The Early Soviet State 1920s 1930s written by Annie G?rin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-25 with Art categories.
In 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.
Devastation And Laughter
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Author : Annie Gérin
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2018-11-23
Devastation And Laughter written by Annie Gérin and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-23 with Art categories.
In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus 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 untheorized. The author sheds light on the 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 and film and theatre history, Annie Gérin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.
The Cinema Of Yakov Protazanov
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Author : F. Booth Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-12
The Cinema Of Yakov Protazanov written by F. Booth Wilson and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12 with Performing Arts categories.
Best known for Aelita (1924), the classic science-fiction film of the Soviet silent era, Yakov Protazanov directed over a hundred films in a career spanning three decades. Called "the Russian D.W. Griffith" in the 1910s for his formative role in the first movies in the last years of the Russian Empire, he fled the Civil War and maintained a successful career in Europe before making an unusual decision to return to Russia now under Soviet power. There his films continued their remarkable success with audiences undergoing a bewildering and often brutal revolutionary transformation. Rather than treating him as an indistinct, if capable craftsman, The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov argues that his films are suffused with a unique creative vision that reflects both his mindset as a traditional Russian intellectual and his experience of dislocation and migration after 1917. As he adapted his films to revolutionary culture, they intermingled different voices and reinterpreted his past work from a disavowed era. Offering fresh perspectives of Protazanov’s films, the book will give readers a new appreciation of his career. The book offers a uniquely valuable vantage point from which to explore how cinema reflected a society in transformation and a seminal moment in the development of cinematic art.
Writing Rogues
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Author : Cassio de Oliveira
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2023-01-15
Writing Rogues written by Cassio de Oliveira and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlement schemes are not usually associated with Soviet literature, yet an entire body of work produced between the October Revolution and the Stalinist Great Terror was constructed around them. In Writing RoguesCassio de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters – rogues and storytellers – who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia that rejected imperial power and attempted to deemphasize national allegiances. Combining new readings of canonical works with in-depth analysis of neglected texts, Writing Rogues explores the proliferation of characters left on the sidelines of the communist transition, including gangsters, con men, and petty thieves, many of them portrayed as ethnic minorities. The book engages with scholarship on Soviet subjectivity as well as classical picaresque literature in order to explain how the subversive rogue – such as Ilf and Petrov’s wildly popular cynic and schemer Ostap Bender – in the process of becoming a fully fledged Soviet citizen, came to expose and embody the contradictions of Soviet life itself. Writing Rogues enriches our understanding of how literature was called upon to participate in the construction of Soviet identity. It demonstrates that the Soviet picaresque resonated with individual citizens’ fears and aspirations as it recorded the country’s transformation into the first communist state.
De Gruyter Handbook Of Humor Studies
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Author : Thomas E. Ford
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-07-22
De Gruyter Handbook Of Humor Studies written by Thomas E. Ford and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies consolidates the cumulative contributions in theory and research on humor from 57 international scholars representing 21 different countries in the widest possible diversity of disciplines. It organizes research in a unique conceptual framework addressing two broad themes: the Essence of Humor and the Functions of Humor. Furthermore, scholars of humor have recognized that humor is not only a universal human experience, it is also inherently social, shared among people and woven into the fabric of nearly every type of interpersonal relationship. Scholars across all academic disciplines have addressed questions about the essence and functions of humor at different "levels of analysis" relating to how narrowly or broadly they conceptualize the social context of humor. Accordingly, the editors have organized each broad thematic section into four subsections defined by "level of analysis." The book first addresses questions about individual psychological processes and text properties, then moves to questions involving broader conceptualizations of the social context addressing humor and social relations, and humor and culture. By providing a comprehensive review of foundational work as well as new research and theoretical advancements across academic disciplines, the De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies will serve as the foremost authoritative research handbook for experienced humor scholars as well as an essential starting point for newcomers to the field, such as graduate students seeking to conduct their own research on humor. Further, by highlighting the interdisciplinary interest of new and emerging areas of research the book identifies and defines directions for future research for scholars from every discipline that contributes to our understanding of humor.
The State Versus The People
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Author : Matthew Rendle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-11
The State Versus The People written by Matthew Rendle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with History categories.
The State versus The People provides the first detailed account of the role of revolutionary justice in the early Soviet state. Law has often been dismissed by historians as either unimportant after the October Revolution amid the violence and chaos of civil war, or, in the absence of written codes and independent judges, little more than another means of violence alongside the secret police (Cheka). This is particularly true of the most revolutionary aspect of the new justice system, revolutionary tribunals—courts inspired by the French Revolution and established to target counter-revolutionary enemies. Yet the evidence put forward in this book paints a more complex picture. The Bolsheviks invested a great deal of effort and scarce resources in building an extensive system of tribunals that spread across the country and operated within the military and the transport network. At their peak, hundreds of tribunals heard hundreds of thousands of cases every year. Not all, though, ended in harsh sentences: some were dismissed through lack of evidence; others given a wide range of sentences; and others still, suspended sentences. Instances of early release and amnesty were also common. This book argues that law played a distinct and multi-faceted role for the Bolsheviks. Tribunals, in particular, stood at the intersection between law and violence, offering various advantages to the Bolsheviks by strengthening state control, providing a more effective means of educating the population about counter-revolution, and enabling a more flexible approach to punishing the state's enemies. All of this challenges traditional understandings of the early Soviet state, adding to our knowledge of the civil war and, ultimately, how the Bolsheviks held on to power.
Will I Ever Laugh Again
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Author : Diane Taynor
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2023-02-09
Will I Ever Laugh Again written by Diane Taynor and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-09 with Family & Relationships categories.
Losing my son Josh, without a doubt, was the darkest season of my life. There are no words that can adequately express the level of devastation and depth of agony I've suffered. From the very moment we were informed of his death, I knew I was in for the fight of my life. Only by the love, mercy, and grace of a faithful God have I survived. Today I stand amazed at the goodness of God and His gentle kindness to me. In the years since that awful October day when my world came crashing down, learning to face a life without Josh has taken every ounce of grit and determination I possess. Without a doubt, the only reason I'm not dead or in a mental hospital today is quite simple. I have a Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who refuses to let go of my hand. Psalm 118:17 (KJV) says, "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord." Amen and amen!
Poems To Ponder
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Author : Veronica M. E. (Saunders) Zuill
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2019-11-22
Poems To Ponder written by Veronica M. E. (Saunders) Zuill and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with Poetry categories.
Poems to Ponder, are a collection of thought provoking concepts written to uplift, to inspire, to encourage, to help us build sound relationships; to laugh, to live life, to overcome challenges, to learn from our struggles, to be thankful and appreciative no matter what kind of situation we may find ourselves in from day to day. Poems to Ponder will do just what it says. You will undoubtedly find yourself musing over line by line. As you search your heart, you will be looking for answers to some of those soul-searching questions about yourself that you may ask. As your eyes roam through the pages of this publication, allow your mind to contemplate how the message in each poem can perhaps transform you, from the inside out, to make an even better you, for whom you wholeheartedly, can be very proud. In addition to Poems to Ponder,Veronica M. E. (Saunders) Zuill is the author of four books for children: Short Stories for Children book 1 Short Stories for Children Book 2 The Search for the Missing Campers The Most Unforgettable Moment
Best To Laugh
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Author : Lorna Landvik
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Best To Laugh written by Lorna Landvik and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Fiction categories.
No one steps up to life’s banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, “Grief, please!” But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It’s good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living with them. With that, the irrepressible Lorna Landvik launches her latest irresistible character onto the world stage—or at least onto the dimly lit small stage where stand-up comedy gets its start. Herself a comic performer, Landvik taps her own adventurous past and Minnesota roots to conjure Candy’s life in this strange new Technicolor home. Her fellow tenants at Peyton Hall include a female bodybuilder, a ruined nightclub impresario, and a well-connected Romanian fortune-teller. There are game show appearances and temp jobs at a record company and an establishment suspiciously like the Playboy Mansion, and of course the alluring but not always welcoming stage of stand-up comedy. As she hones her act, Candy is tested by humiliation, hecklers, and the inherent sexism that insists “chicks aren’t funny.” Written with the light touch and quiet wisdom that have made her works so popular, this is classic Lorna Landvik—sometimes so funny, you’ll cry; sometimes so sad, you might as well laugh; and always impossible to put down.
The Legacy Of Nietzsche S Philosophy Of Laughter
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Author : Lydia Amir
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-30
The Legacy Of Nietzsche S Philosophy Of Laughter written by Lydia Amir and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche’s reception in France, and she explains why and how he came to be considered a "philosopher of laughter" in the French academe. Each of the subsequent three chapters focuses on the significance of humor and laughter in the good life as advocated by Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset. These chapters also explore the complex relationship between the comic and the tragic, and of humor and laughter to irony, satire, and ridicule. The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter makes an invaluable contribution to recent interpretive work done on Bataille and Deleuze, and offers further introduction to the relatively understudied Rosset. It illuminates the philosophies of these three thinkers, their connection to Nietzsche, and, overall, the significant role that humor plays in philosophy.