"Singing a Different Tune"

Helena Goscilo’s current research resides in the domains of celebrity studies and film: namely, an edited  collection titled Starlight and Stargazers: Slavic Screen Celebrities and a monograph on current Polish women film directors, Film's Feisty Femmes: Current Polish Directors. Down the line are a co-written book on the multimedia Anna Karenina and resumption of work on a study of graphics from Stalin to Yeltsin.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One—Polish Musical Films1.   Early Polish Language Musicals: The Tug of War between Genre Film and CabaretBeth Holmgren2.   Between the Market and the Mirror: Stanisław Bareja’s Marriage of ConvenienceHelena Goscilo3.   Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War: Music, Space, and IdentityElżbieta Ostrowska4.   The Allure of Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Lure (2015) as an Intrepid Feminist HybridHelena GosciloPart Two—Russian Musical Films5.   Perplexing Popularity: Ivan Pyr′ev’s Kolkhoz Musical Comedy FilmsRimgaila Salys 6.   The Thaw as Carnival: Soviet Musical Comedy after StalinLilya Kaganovsky7.   Constructing the Pop Diva: Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, and the Celebrity Musical of the 1970s–1980sAlexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorov8.   Postmodernity, Freedom, and Authenticity in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto (2018)Justin WilmesFilmography

"This volume will excite scholars looking for novel scholarly work on the history, aesthetics, and culture of the film musical in general and Polish-Russian-Soviet film in particular."— A. J. DeBlasio, Dickinson College, CHOICE“In Singing a Different Tune: The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context, Goscilo as editor works the magic that only the best directors can achieve: all her contributors give outstanding performances, covering material from two different countries and multiple time periods while never missing a step. The essays in this volume confirm what Busby Berkeley showed his audiences in Gold Diggers of 1933: tough times can make for great musicals.”— Eliot Borenstein, Professor & Chair, Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University