The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters
By Rimgaila Salys
ISBN 9781841502823
Paperback 240 pages 230x174 mm
Price £19.95/$35
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Grigorii Aleksandrov?s musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak
Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ?40s.
Drawing on studio documents, press materials, and interviews with surviving
film crew members, The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov presents
the untold production history of the films. Salys explores how Aleksandrov?s
cinema preserved the paradigms of the American musical, including its
comedic tradition, using both to inscribe the foundation myths of the Stalin
era in the national consciousness. As the first major study to situate these
films in the cultural context of the era, this book will be essential to
courses on Russian cinema and Soviet culture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rimgaila Salys is professor of Russian studies at the University of Colorado
at Boulder and a specialist in twentieth-century Russian literature, film,
and culture.
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