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Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture / Eliot Borenstein.
LIBRA HM621 .B67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-
- Series:
- Culture and society after socialism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Russia (Federation).
- Popular culture.
- Popular literature.
- Violence in popular culture.
- Sex in popular culture.
- Russia (Federation).
- Culture--Russia (Federation).
- Culture.
- Sex in popular culture--Russia (Federation).
- Violence in popular culture--Russia (Federation).
- Sex in mass media.
- Violence in mass media.
- Popular literature--Russia (Federation)--History and criticism.
- Post-communism--Social aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Post-communism.
- Post-communism--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- In Overkill, Eliot Borenstein explores the lurid and often-disturbing cultural landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats. At the same time, they built a notion of nationalism or heroism that could be maintained even under the most miserable of social conditions, when consumers felt most powerless.
- Contents:
- About that : sex and its metaphors
- Stripping the nation bare : pornography as politics
- Pimping the motherland : Russia bought and sold
- To be continued : death and the art of serial storytelling
- Women who run with the wolves
- Men of action : heroic melodrama and the passion of Mad Dog
- Overkill : bespredel and gratuitous violence
- Conclusion : someone like Putin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801445835
- 0801445833
- 9780801474033
- 0801474035
- OCLC:
- 154706642
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