The musical comedy films of Grigorii Aleksandrov : laughing matters
"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"--Cover
eBook,English, 2009
Intellect : University of Chicago Press, Bristol, UK, Chicago, IL, 2009
Biographies
1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
9781841503479, 9786612455704, 1841503479, 6612455705
548664422
Veselye rebiata = Happy guys
Tsirk = Circus
Volga-Volga
Svetlyi putʹ = The radiant path
Appendix A.A day of filming with director G. Aleksandrov's Circus crew
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