Grigorii Aleksandrov's musical comedy films, created with
composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of
the 1930s and '40s. Drawing on studio documents, press materials,
and interviews with surviving film crew members, "The Musical
Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov" presents the untold
production history of the films. Salys explores how Aleksandrov's
cinema preserved the paradigms of the American musical, including
its comedic tradition, using both to inscribe the foundation myths
of the Stalin era in the national consciousness. As the first major
study to situate these films in the cultural context of the era,
this book will be essential to courses on Russian cinema and Soviet
culture.
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