`Dealing emotional blows': realism and verbal `terror' at the Russian state theatrical academy

Lemon, Alaina

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2004.01.001

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“…In the early 1990s, when I first visited GITIS with Russian friends enrolled in the directing program, I was struck that local assessments of its symbolic and cultural capital seemed undiminished by regime change. Even as film production and theater attendance were in crisis at the time in Russia, theatrical pedagogy still emanated value from "here," performing Moscow as its locus, not the West (see Lemon 2008). And later, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork at GITIS (2002GITIS ( -2003GITIS ( , fall 2005, I found that, in contrast with experiences during my earlier fieldwork in Russia, few cared whether or not an etnograf was observing, American or otherwise.…”

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“…In fact, books describing pedagogical encounters and conflicts with directors during rehearsals-theatrical bildungsroman-have constituted a popular genre in Russia for decades (e.g., Tairov 2000;Tovstonogov 1972;Zakharov 2000;and Butkevich 2002;9 See, for instance, Costiglia 1997. 10 See de Custine 1839Füllöp-Miller 1928;Lotman 1984;Fitzpatrick 1991;Clark 1995;Lemon 1998;Alexopoulis 1998;Cassiday 2000;Hellbeck 2006;Manning 2007;McReynolds and Neuberger 2001;Wilson 2005;Wolfson 2005;and Yurchak 2005. 11 I both distinguish and link performance and performativity in Lemon 2000.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…10 See de Custine 1839Füllöp-Miller 1928;Lotman 1984;Fitzpatrick 1991;Clark 1995;Lemon 1998;Alexopoulis 1998;Cassiday 2000;Hellbeck 2006;Manning 2007;McReynolds and Neuberger 2001;Wilson 2005;Wolfson 2005;and Yurchak 2005. 11 I both distinguish and link performance and performativity in Lemon 2000. There I show how performance reifies and performs racial and other distinctions and alliances.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Scholars have detailed how historically contingent situations and relations make sentiments, how ideology, social expectations, or institutional 12 My earlier fieldwork in Russia (see Lemon 2000) faced oscillating angst and pride about authenticity and display similar to that which Shryock (2004) describes. Why is there less such worry at an institution dedicated precisely to display?…”

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“…The other students, sitting along a wall flanking the teacher, laugh almost to tears when Julya's character demands [lines 5-6] that they attend a rally for communist politician Zjuganov. They double up at her abusive insults, no strangers, they, to pedagogical invective (see Lemon 2004). …”

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Sympathy for the Weary State?: Cold War Chronotopes and Moscow Others

Lemon

2009

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Julya paces the parquet, blond hair coiled severely, hands clasped atop padded buttocks encased in a boxy gray, ill-fitting suit. She sputters abuse at her audience: fifteen classmates sprawled on the floor, their teacher seated in a chair, and a video camera. Moscow, November 2002. The Americans prepare to invade Iraq, Putin serves his third year as president, and these students begin their first term at the Russian Academy for Theatrical Arts (RATI/GITIS). Inside its walls, Julya depicts the head of her high school, an older woman in a town two hours north. She yells: “I REQUEST that TODAY at the meeting with ZhshzhshshzhshuGAnov you ALL be there!” (Zjuganov is the leader of the Russian Communist Party.) Some students slap the parquet laughing. Their teacher is less impressed.

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confidence: 91%

Section: F E E L I N G a C R O S S S C A L E S : T H E At E R I N T Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: F E E L I N G a C R O S S S C A L E S : T H E At E R I N T Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: F E E L I N G a C R O S S S C A L E S : T H E At E R I N T Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: H R O N O T O P E S a C R O S S G E N E R At I O N Smentioning

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2009

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Social Theory and Everyday Marxists: Russian Perspectives on Epistemology and Ethics

Kruglova

2017

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Scholars have long tracked how the USSR, a laboratory of social engineering, was deeply informed by local readings of Marxist social theory. Why, then, in recent years, have so many historical and anthropological studies of Russia excluded “Marxist” from the list of main descriptors, or optics, through which they view their material? In this essay, I argue that in much contemporary scholarship Marxism and its many afterlives have evidenced a kind of blind spot, reducing Marxism to “just” an ideology. I assert that rediscovering the presence of Marxism in Russia as a Gramscian hegemonic process and a vernacular that emerged among “laymen” can help us understand how a wide range of Russians continue to make sense of their worlds today. Drawing on several years of research in the city of Perm, I interpret everyday conversations among middle-age urbanites about morality, and demonstrate how this rediscovery of Marxism can elucidate what things matter for Russians today, and how. If social scientists proceed by acknowledging that “professional” and “lay” social knowledge increasingly share sources of “theoretical” inspiration, then we face a range of narrative challenges.

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Recycling Cultural Construction: Desecularisation in Postsoviet Mari El1

Luehrmann¹

2005

Religion, State and Society

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`Dealing emotional blows': realism and verbal `terror' at the Russian state theatrical academy

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Sympathy for the Weary State?: Cold War Chronotopes and Moscow Others

Sympathy for the Weary State?: Cold War Chronotopes and Moscow Others

Social Theory and Everyday Marxists: Russian Perspectives on Epistemology and Ethics

Recycling Cultural Construction: Desecularisation in Postsoviet Mari El1

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