{"product_id":"9780887557682","title":"The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause : Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko (Studies in Immigration and Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine's struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian immigrants sustain their identity. His feature-length Ukrainian language films made in the 1930s with Hollywood director Edgar G. Ulmer, the \"king of ethnic and B movies,\" were shown throughout North America. Orest T. Martynowych's The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause is a fascinating portrait how culture can become a political tool in a diaspora community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52280442978615,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":173.1,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780887557682-1.jpg?v=1783132144","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780887557682","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}