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Performing Arts Individual Director

Sad Comedy of Èl'dar Riazanov

An Introduction to Russia's Most Popular Filmmaker

by (author) David MacFadyen

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2003
Category
Individual Director
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773571310
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $95.00

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David MacFadyen investigates what made Riazanov's films so wildly popular and what - if any - relationship that popularity had to Soviet policy. Using the works of Deleuze, Lacan, and Kristeva, MacFadyen looks at how Riazanov's films relate to society, audience demand, and Soviet politics. In more than twenty love stories that have precious little to do with statecraft, Soviet or otherwise, Riazanov captures the willful inclusiveness of socialist culture.

About the author

David MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and is the author of The Sad Comedy of Èl'dar Riazanov and several books on Joseph Brodsky.

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