Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Polish Film Musicals
6. 1. Early Polish-Language Musicals: The Tug of War between Genre Film and Cabaret 39
7. 2. Between the Market and the Mirror: Stanisław Bareja’s Marriage of Convenience 82
8. 3. Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War: Music, Space, and Identity 116
9. 4. The Allure of Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Lure (2015) as an Intrepid Feminist Hybrid 141
10. Part Two: Russian Film Musicals
11. 5. Perplexing Popularity: Ivan Pyr′ev’s Kolkhoz Musical Comedy Films 173
12. 6. The Thaw as Carnival: Soviet Musical Comedy after Stalin 220
13. 7. Constructing the Pop Diva: Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, and the Celebrity Musical of the 1970s–1980s 248
14. 8. Postmodernity, Freedom, and Authenticity in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto (2018) 274
15. Filmography 299
16. Index 301