附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.
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 1920's / 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 Costanzo -- 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.
摘要:Uses 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.
