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xi Ac knowl edg ments Gov ern ing the pub li ca tion of this book is my be lief that knowl edge is mean ing ful only if shared. My men tors in stilled in me this be lief by mod el ing schol arly gen e ros ity. My first debt of grat i tude goes to Irina Re yf man at Co lum bia Uni ver sity, under whose guid ance and stead fast sup port my ideas on the cul tural semi ot ics of mas que rade first took shape as a doc to ral dis ser ta tion. I am grate ful for the sup port I re ceived from Co lum bia, in clud ing gen er ous fel low ship fund ing from the Har ri man In sti tute that en a bled my re search and writ ing. Ron Meyer, Com mu ni ca tions Man ager of the Har ri man, sup plied cri tiques, ad vice, and en cour age ment, which were in stru men tal in pro pel ling for ward my work and sus tain ing my be lief in this pro ject. The Uni ver sity of Il li nois at Chi cago (UIC) has pro vided me with a vital com mu nity of schol ars among whom I have been able to cul ti vate my inter dis ci pli nary re search. A Fa culty Fel low ship from UIC’s In sti tute for the Hu man ities al lowed me to ex pand the cul tural his tory com po nent of this pro ject, as did a UIC Fa culty Re search Sup port Grant. My par tic i pa tion in The Sum mer Re search La bor a tory on Rus sia, East ern Eu rope, and Eur asia at the Uni ver sity of Il li nois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) was in dis pens able for ex e cut ing my sec ond stage of re search. Helen Sul li van and other Slavic Ref er ence Ser vice li brar ians at UIUC xii Acknowledgments guided me to ward rich re sources through the In di vid u al ized Re search Prac ti cum and knowl edg ably re plied to my many on line quer ies. In ad di tion to this in sti tu tional sup port, many in di vid u als have con trib uted to the suc cess of this pro ject. My col leagues Mi chal Pawel Mar kow ski, Norma Mo ruzzi, Su sanne Rott, Astrida Orle Tan tillo, Al fred Thomas, and Julia Vain gurt at UIC have in spired and aided me with their good coun sel and cam a rad e rie. A model of in tel lec tual gen e ros ity, Julia has been a con sis tently in sight ful reader of my work and a true friend. Eliz a beth Ken dall, Margo Rosen, Vadim Shkol ni kov, Jane Taub man, and Alina Wyman have of fered keen sug ges tions for how to im prove por tions of this man u script, as did the fel lows at UIC’s In sti tute for the Hu man ities. I am thank ful to the anon y mous read ers of this man u script for their con struc tive cri tiques. A very spe cial, heart felt thank-you goes to Olga Pe ters Hasty, who scru pu lously read multi ple ver sions of this man u script. Her as tute ob ser va tions and un wa ver ing faith in this pro ject have buoyed me over the course of its re al iza tion. In the end, how ever, I alone bear full re spon sibil ity for any er rors or over sights in the pages of this book. Sev eral re search as sist ants made sig nifi cant con tri bu tions, es pe cially in se cur ing the photo graphs and il lus tra tions in this book. Mak bal Mu sina as sisted me in lo cat ing ma te ri als at the Rus sian State His tor i cal Archive and worked tire lessly to ob tain photo graphs from the Cen tral State Archive of Cin ema, Photo graphic, and Phono graphic Doc u ments in Saint Pe ters burg (TsGAKFFD). Tat yana...