A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America’s thirties and forties. Its eastward migration resulted in a barrage of Polish screen musicals that relied on the country’s famous cabaret stars, while in the Soviet Union it inspired the audience-pleasing kolkhoz musicals of Ivan Pyr’ev and their urban counterpart, directed by Grigorii Aleksandrov. Like Stalin, Slavic moviegoe...
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One—Polish Musical Films
1. Early Polish Language Musicals: The Tug of War between Genre Film and Cabare...
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Helena Goscilo’s current research resides in the domains of celebrity studies and film: namely, an edited collection titled Starlight and Stargazers: Slavic Screen C...