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Title Russia's new fin de siècle : contemporary culture between past and present / edited by Birgit Beumers ; Ellen Thomas, cover designer ; Melanie Marshall, Tom Newman, production manager
Published Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Contents Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors' Notes; Introduction: Russia's New fin de siècle: Contemporary Culture between Past and Present; PART I: Written Discourse; Chapter 1: The Function of the Soviet Experience in Post-Soviet Discourse; Chapter 2: Cycles, Continuity and Change in Contemporary Russian Culture; Chapter 3: Victor Pelevin and the Void; Chapter 4: From Homo Zapiens to Media Sapiens: Post-Soviet Television in Russian Fiction; PART II: Visual and Popular Culture; Chapter 5: Afrika and Monroe -- Post-Soviet Appropriation, East and West
Chapter 6: Military Dandyism, Cosmism and Eurasian Imper-ArtChapter 7: Sweet Dreams: Retro Imagery on Chocolate Packaging in Post-Soviet Russia; Chapter 8: Victory Day: Rituals and Practices of War Commemoration in Russia; PART III: Cinematic Culture; Chapter 9: A Kiss for the KGB: Putin as Cinematic Hero; Chapter 10: 'Address Your Questions to Dostoevsky': Privatizing Punishment in Russian Cinema; Chapter 11: Freedom and Uncertainty: The Cinema of Slava Tsukerman; Chapter 12: Muratova's Cinema before and after Perestroika: Deconstructing and Rebuilding Film Aesthetics
Chapter 13: The Place of Action Must Not be Changed: Aleksei Balabanov's St PetersburgIndex; Back Page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 13, 2014)
Subject Social change -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 21st century
Civilization
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Civilization -- 21st century
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Beumers, Birgit
Thomas, Ellen
Marshall, Melanie
Newman, Tom
ISBN 9781783200856
1783200855
9781783200863
1783200863