How Long to Read Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)

How Long Does it Take to Read Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) by Annie G?rin

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Description

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized. The author sheds light on the theoretical texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present subjects, themes, and practice. Devastation and Laughter is the first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By introducing important bodies of work that have largely been overlooked in the fields of art history, film and theatre history, Annie Gérin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.

How long is Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)?

Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) by Annie G?rin is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) aloud.

What Reading Level is Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)?

Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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