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Author Borenstein, Eliot, 1966- author

Title Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture / Eliot Borensteinches
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : illustrations
Series Culture and society after socialism
Culture and society after socialism.
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 Putinches
Summary Perestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture came to reflect the anxiety and despair felt by many Russians. In 'Overkill' Borenstein explores the lurid and often-disturbing landscape of modern Russian popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Popular culture -- Russia (Federation)
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)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Popular culture -- Russia (Federation)
Culture -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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)
Popular culture
Popular literature
Post-communism -- Social aspects
Sex in mass media
Sex in popular culture
Violence in mass media
Violence in popular culture
Gewalt
Pornografie
Sexualverhalten
Russia (Federation)
Russland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801463457
0801463459
9780801463457
0801474035
9780801474033
Other Titles Sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture