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.
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.
News From Moscow
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Author : Simon Huxtable
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
News From Moscow written by Simon Huxtable 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 2022 with History categories.
"News from Moscow: Journalism and the Fate of the Thaw Project is a history of the post-war Soviet press that takes readers from the tense ideological climate of the late Stalin era to the comparative freedom of the Thaw. Through a case study of one of the country's most innovative and popular titles, the youth daily Komsomol'skaia pravda, the book shows how journalists attempted to remake the Soviet newspaper after Stalin's death, but details the many obstacles they faced along the way. The book argues that Thaw journalism was characterised by an unresolvable tension between innovation and conservativism: the more journalists tried to devise new forms to attract readers, the more officials grew anxious about the potentially disruptive consequences of reform. Taking readers from the gloomy climate of late Stalinism to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the book's six chapters offer examples of journalists attempts to innovate, from its advocacy for person-centred pedagogy in the late Stalin and Thaw periods, to the creation of the country's first polling institute and its support for Brezhnev's technocratic reforms in the 1960s. Drawing on a range of unseen internal documents, including transcripts of private editorial meetings, the book takes readers into the Soviet newsroom for the first time, and details the conversations - with colleagues, functionaries and readers - that characterised journalists' daily work, and the conflicts with officials that came to characterise the Thaw project"--.
Biblical Hermeneutics In Context And The Struggle For Meaning
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Author : Aliou Cisse Niang
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2024-10-24
Biblical Hermeneutics In Context And The Struggle For Meaning written by Aliou Cisse Niang and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-24 with Religion categories.
The meaningful juxtaposition of academics (“experts”) with the day-to-day lives of nonacademics (“nonexperts”) has animated Gerald O. West’s work from the beginning. Seeking to bridge this chasm, West’s approach of reading the Bible with the “ordinary people” (typically marginalized communities) became a core practice not only of his church work but of his scholarship. West has been a strong proponent of taking seriously the “ordinary reader” as a viable and legitimate contributor to our understanding of biblical interpretation. Not only does this undo the “ivory tower” elitism that tends to pervade academic halls of learning, but it also reflects a form of scholarly humility that has been a mainstay of West’s and should be perpetuated more broadly in biblical scholarship.
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.
The Laughing Cure
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Author : Brian King
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2016-05-03
The Laughing Cure written by Brian King and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Health & Fitness categories.
Dr. Brian King is a psychologist and stand-up comedian whose humor therapy seminars are attended by more than ten thousand people each year. In The Laughing Cure, King combines wit with medical research to reveal the benefits of laughter and humor on physical and emotional health. King’s language is humorous and uplifting, and his advice is backed in science. The Laughing Cure features clinical studies and interviews with some of the nation’s top doctors that prove that laughter lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones, increases muscle flexion, boosts immune systems, and triggers endorphins. It’s been shown to relieve depression, to produce a general sense of wellbeing, even to make us more productive, loving, and kind. The Laughing Cure presents step-by-step guidance and proven techniques to embrace laughter as both medicine for current conditions and preventative medicine. This highly unique and enjoyable read explains why much-talked about, but little understood methods of therapy like those embraced by acclaimed humor doctor Patch Adams—played by Robyn Williams in a 1998 film—and laughter yoga actually work. Growing up, King wanted to be a stand-up comic; his PhD. was his backup plan. Little did he know, the impact his unique situation would put him in, the way it would allow him to help others. Very few doctors have the ability to heal the way that King does; his method is cheap, easy, chemical-free—even fun. With The Laughing Cure, readers will learn how—and why—laughter saves lives.
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.
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
Marvelous Silly Brain
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Author : Pakize Nevin Calisal Sutlas
language : en
Publisher: Karen Ladybug
Release Date : 2022-11-04
Marvelous Silly Brain written by Pakize Nevin Calisal Sutlas and has been published by Karen Ladybug this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-04 with Science categories.
The limits of the brain challenge the limits of our knowledge. The unknown is frightening. However, the subject study of the brain is fun, enjoyable, and entertaining. It's not as unknown as we think.
Beneath The Surface
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Author : Colin Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-18
Beneath The Surface written by Colin Fletcher and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-18 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique. The book describes and evaluates each research technique as an experience for the researcher, and the author explains what they themselves have learned of sociological meaning from engaging in it. The book traces the main ideas through their last generations of sociologists and asks what future there is in a particular method.