Sovetskie komedii "nashego vremeni" : Remeiki v rossiiskom kinematografe XXI veka
Abstract
This article examines a number of remakes of classic Soviet comedies of the 1970s produced in the 2000–2010 period, and the audience reactions to these films. Brezhnev-era comedies, such as The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!, Office Romance, and Gentlemen of Fortune are revealed not only as constituent parts of a collective past, but as cultural objects that continue to function as a source of cultural identity in the post-Soviet period, despite the political, social and cultural changes that have taken place since 1991. The contemporary remakes of these films, which might be de-fined as hybrid forms – simultaneously “domestic” (i.e. produced within the same culture as the originals) and “cross-cultural” (adapted from a foreign culture) – have provoked extreme reactions in spectators who are not prepared for such a radical transformation of their collective memory.
Citation
Donovan , V S 2018 , ' Sovetskie komedii "nashego vremeni" : Remeiki v rossiiskom kinematografe XXI veka ' , Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie , vol. 152 . < https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/152/article/20025/ >
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Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie
Status
Peer reviewed
Type
Journal article
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