PARODY, SATIRE, POLITICAL HUMOR
Jan 23th Week 1
Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination pp.51-60, Yuri Tynianov, On parody (1929) (Part 1 - the first 7 pages)
Oushakine, Serguei. “Red Laughter: On Refined Weapons of Soviet Jesters” Social Research, Vol. 79, No. 1, Politics and Comedy (SPRING 2012), pp. 189-216
Arkady Raikin (with subtitles)
Trailer to The Humorist by Michael Idov
Set up your account on Scalar:
Request a registration code for Scalar. Email me if you do not receive the code by Friday, Jan 19th. Intro to Scalar
Jan 30st Week 2
Mikhail Zoshchenko, Short Stories
Brandenberger David (2009) Political humor under Stalin: an anthology of unofficial jokes and anecdotes, Intro + Chapter "Everyday Life," Chapter "The Great Terror"
Ronald Reagan Telling Soviet Jokes
Feb 6th Week 3
Alexey Navalny Putin’s Palace: History of the World's Largest Bribe (2021), make sure you watch the description of the palace 25:50-1:20:00 min of the video
Russian and Belarussian stand-up comedy on Youtube: Danila Poperechnyi “Pop-Culture”, Vanya Usovich “Another Day”
Parodic music videos produced by Aleksander Gudkov: Acquadiscoteka (2021) and I am Narrow (2022) (for reference, watch the video "I am Russian" (2022) by the popular singer Shaman first). Translations are available here and here
Smola, Klavdia. 2021. “Hybrid Political Humor: The New Dissent Art in Putin Putin, Vladimir’s Russia.”
“Russian women find a punchline in the age of Me Too” by Amie Ferris-Rotman Washington Post. August 11, 2019
Final Deadline for blogpost on PARODY, SATIRE, POLITICAL HUMOR on Friday
