Socialist Cultures East and West

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Socialist Cultures East and West A Post-Cold War Reassessment

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Dubravka Juraga, M. Keith Booker

Book Code: C7490

ISBN: 0-275-97490-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97490-9

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200 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Decades of Western Cold War propaganda were designed to depict socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic acheivement. Now, in the wake of the Cold War, it is becoming possible to reassess the past and present cultural productions of artists with socialist inclinations. The essays in this volume begin such a reassessment, finding that socialist cultural production in the 20th century, both as the official culture of the socialist East and as an oppositional culture in the capitalist West, has been rich and varied. The volume focuses on socialist culture in the industrialized world, primarily Eastern Europe and the West. An introductory essay overviews socialist cultural productions of the 20th century, while the chapters that follow address a wide range of topics. These include Soviet socialist realist fiction and film musicals, the socialist drama of Bertolt Brecht, and British and American leftist fiction. The volume demonstrates that propagandistic Cold War depictions of socialism as a threat to artistic expression were inaccurate and misleading.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker
The Reds and The Blacks: The Historical Novel in the Soviet Union and Postcolonial Africa by M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga
From Laughter "Out of Sync" to Post-Synchronized Comedy: How the Stalinist Film Musical Caught Up with Hollywood and Overtook It by Thomas Lahusen
Miroslav Krleza's Zastave: Socialism, Yugoslavia, and the Historical Novel by Dubravka Juraga
The Matter of Art: Reinventing Brecht in the Society of the Spectacle by Michael Sprinker
Mike Gold or Jame Joyce?: The Literature of Politics and the Politics of Literature by M. Keith Booker
Revising the Barricades: Scholarship about the U.S. Cultural Left in the Post-Cold War Era by Alan Wald
Material Grounds: Border and Place in Raymond Williams's Fiction by H. Gustav Klaus
Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction Writers by Carole Ferrier and Stephen Knight

LC Card Number: 2001059150

LCC Class: HX523

Dewey Class: 306


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