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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Kaganovsky, Lilya. How the Soviet man was unmade. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008015490 (OCoLC)184822173 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lilya Kaganovsky |
ISBN: | 9780822973430 082297343X |
OCLC Number: | 654305263 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction: "Bodies that matter" -- How the Soviet man was (un)made -- Visual pleasure in Stalinist cinema -- Heterosexual panic -- What does woman want? -- Epilogue: "Female masculinity." |
Series Title: | Series in Russian and East European studies. |
Responsibility: | Lilya Kaganovsky. |
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Abstract:
Exposes the paradox behind the myth of the indestructible Stalinist-era male. This book examines the recurring theme of the mutilated male body, which appears with startling frequency. It also provides a reevaluation of classic works of the period, including the novels of Nikolai Ostrovskii and Boris Polevoi.
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Lilya Kaganovsky asks new and provocative questions about key Soviet texts. What is at stake in their recurrent images of mutilation and impairment? How do they participate in forging the Soviet subject to accommodate state desire? Her work deftly matches early socialism's hyper-emphasis on the enhanced, virile body with a path-breaking examination of a different dimension of male subjectivity. - Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh Read more...
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- Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History.
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- Masculinity in motion pictures.
- Men in literature.
- Men in motion pictures.
- Socialist realism in literature.
- Socialist realism in motion pictures.
- Socialist realism -- Soviet Union.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
- Motion pictures.
- Russian literature.
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- Soviet Union.
- Stalinismus
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- Männlichkeit
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- Sowjetunion.