{"product_id":"imitations-of-life-9780822327806","title":"Imitations of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Melodrama bore all the defects and virtues of its parent, the French Revolution. Given to wild flights, neck-breaking twists and turns, stark judgements of good and evil, the genre also brought public attention onto private life and the vicissitudes of underprivilege. Melodrama taught much to the Russians who appropriated it. As the contributors to the present volume demonstrate, it taught them how to see, to understand and even how to accomplish history. An imitator surely, but also a creator of life—we can all be grateful to Neuberger and McReynolds for bringing this to our attention.”—James von Geldern, Macalaster College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger \u003cbr\u003e The Misanthrope, the Orphan, and the Magpie: Imported Melodrama in the Twilight of Serfdom \/ Richard Stites \u003cbr\u003e Melodramatizing Russia: Nineteenth-Century Views from the West \/ Julie A. Buckler \u003cbr\u003e The Importance of Being Unhappy, or, Why She Died \/ Beth Holmgren \u003cbr\u003e Melodrama as Counterliterature? Count Amori’s Response to Three Scandalous Novels \/ Otto Boele \u003cbr\u003e Home Was Never Where the Heart Was: Domestic Dystopias in Russia’s Silent Movie Melodramas \/ Louise McReynolds \u003cbr\u003e Alcohol is Our Enemy! Soviet Temperance Melodramas of the 1920s \/ Julie A. Cassiday \u003cbr\u003e Melodrama and the Myth of the Soviet Union \/ Lars T. Lih \u003cbr\u003e Soviet Family Melodrama of the 1940s and 1950s: From \u003ci\u003eWait for Me \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe Cranes Are Flying\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Alexander Prokhorov \u003cbr\u003e Conventional Melodrama, Innovative Theater, and a Melodramatic Society: Pavel Kohout’s \u003ci\u003eSuch a Love\u003c\/i\u003e at the Moscow University Student Theater \/ Susan Constanzo \u003cbr\u003e Between Public and Private: Revolution and Melodrama in Nikita Mikhalkov’s \u003ci\u003eSlave of Love\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Joan Neuberger \u003cbr\u003e Playing Dead: The Operatics of Celebrity Funerals, or, The Ultimate Silent Part \/ Helena Goscilo \u003cbr\u003e Suggested Reading \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195232710999,"sku":"9780822327806","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822327806.jpg?v=1763646837","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imitations-of-life-9780822327806","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}