Uncensored?: Reinventing Humor and Satire in Post-Soviet Russia

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Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... vii Olga Mesropova Of Tears and Laughter: Humor and Satire in Post-Soviet Russia ............. 1 Humor and Satire in literature Karen Ryan Vladimir Voinovich and Soviet/Emigre!Post-Soviet Satire: A Case Study ...................................................................................................... 11 David Gillespie Through the "I" of the Narrator: Evgeny Popov and the Satire of Collapse .................................................... 27 Alexei Pavlenko Onwards and Upwards: Senchin's Satiric "I" ............................................. 41 Humor and Satire in Animation and Anekdot Jose Alaniz New Komiks for the New Russians ............................................................... 59 Emil Draitser The Rise and Fall of the Jokeloric New Russians ........................................ 79 Humor and Satire in Film and Television Alexander Prokhorov Debunking Myths Old and New: 1urii Mamin's Satires in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema ..................................................................... 101 Birgit Beumers The Peculiarities of Russian National Cinema in the Rogozhkin Period ..................................................................................... 117 Jane Taubman Kira Muratova's Eccentric Cinema .............................................................. 133 Elena Baraban A Reconciling Smile: Humor in the Detective Series Streets of Broken Lights ............................. 145 Elena Prokhorova How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the USSR: History, Irony, and Nostalgia in Leonid Parfenov's TV Project Namedni: 1961- 1991 ............................................................................ 159 Alexander Kozintsev Kukly: Rage and Jest ........................................................................................ 175 Humor and Satire in Music and Performance Anthony Qualin Striking Crude Chords: Bawdy Humor in Post-Soviet Russian Rock .............................................. 195 Olga Mesropova Private Space on the Public Stage: Marriage in Russian Stand-Up Comedy of the 1990s ............................... 211 Seth Graham Afterword .......................................................................................................... 223 Bibliography ............................................................................................................. 229 ...