Melodramatic Masculinity, National Identity, and the Stalinist Past in Postsoviet Cinema

The genre of melodrama, sweepingly scorned by Soviet film critics, proved a convenient screen vehicle for a distinctively Postsoviet imagination responding to the historical and social conundrums of the 1990s. Retrospection dominated the decade's most distinctive films, which enlisted melodrama...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Susan Larsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2000-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol24/iss1/5