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"Give Me the Book of Complaints": Complaint in Post-Stalin Comedy
"Give Me the Book of Complaints": Complaint in Post-Stalin Comedy

Author(s): Milla Fedorova
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)
Keywords: Post-Stalinism; Complaint; Denunciation; Satire; Comedy; Film; Thaw; Riazanov; Gaidai; Daneliia; Klimov

Summary/Abstract: This essay investigates how the means of complaint and the figure of the complainer changed in Soviet comedy films from the Stalin era to the 1960-1970s.

  • Issue Year: 6/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 80-92
  • Page Count: 13