Browsing Stony Brook Theses & Dissertations [SBU] by Subject "absurd, cinema, comedy, communism, Eastern Europe, grotesque"
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Communism with Its Clothes Off: Eastern European Film Comedy and the Grotesque
(The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-10)The dissertation examines the legacies of grotesque comedy in the cinemas of Eastern Europe. The absolute non-seriousness that characterized grotesque realism became a successful and relatively safe way to talk about the ...