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