Between Truth and Time : A History of Soviet Central Television / Christine Elaine Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Christine Elaine, Author.

Contributor:

Louis Stern Memorial Fund, associated with work.

Series:

Eurasia past and present.

Eurasia Past and Present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vsesoi︠u︡znoe radio--History.

Vsesoi︠u︡znoe radio.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Television broadcasting.

Television viewers--Soviet Union.

Television viewers.

Television viewers--Attitudes.

Television and politics--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Television and politics.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television's most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms and the post-Soviet media system.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stagnation and Experimentation in the Russian Era of Television

CHAPTER ONE. Not a Mirror but a Magnifying Glass: Soviet Television Enthusiasm

CHAPTER TWO. Programmnaia Politika: Audience Research and the Creation of the Channel 1 Schedule

CHAPTER THREE. From Café to Contest: New Year's Variety Shows and the Soviet Festive System

CHAPTER FOUR. Time and the Problem of Boredom

CHAPTER FIVE. "Spiritual Coauthorship": Seventeen Moments of Spring and the Soviet TV Miniseries

CHAPTER SIX. "KVN Is an Honest Game": Game Shows and the Problem of Authority

CHAPTER SEVEN. A Dress Rehearsal for Life: Artloto and What? Where? When?

EPILOGUE. The Origins of Central Television's Perestroika

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund.

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-20896-0

OCLC:

954285281