Russian Popular Culture
DOWNLOAD
Download Russian Popular Culture PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Russian Popular Culture book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Russian Popular Culture
DOWNLOAD
Author : Richard Stites
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-08-20
Russian Popular Culture written by Richard Stites and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08-20 with History categories.
This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West - the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, stage, radio and television, Professor Richard Stites introduces the people and cultural products that are household words to Russian people. Spanning the entire twentieth century, the author examines the subcultures that draw upon and enrich Russian popular culture. He explores the relationship between popular culture and the national and social values of the masses, including their heroes and myths, and assesses the phenomenon of the celebrity from the silent screen star to the latest rock music idol. Richard Stites pays particular attention to the dramatic battle between elite and popular culture and to the intervention of revolutions, wars, and the state in the production and control of this culture.
Pop Culture Russia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Birgit Beumers
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2005-06-21
Pop Culture Russia written by Birgit Beumers and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-21 with Social Science categories.
A revealing look at contemporary Russian popular culture, exploring the historical and social influences that make it unique. Pop music is only one aspect of contemporary Russian culture that has taken some unexpected turns in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Television and advertising, theater and cinema, athletics and religion, even fashion and food now reflect more exposure to the West, yet remain in essence distinctively Russian. Pop Culture Russia! introduces readers to the fascinating, often surprising, post-Soviet cultural landscape. With chapters on media, the arts, recreation, religion, and consumerism, the book offers an insightful survey of Russian mass culture from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the present, exploring the historical significance of important events and trends, as well as the social and political contexts from which they emerged.
Overkill
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eliot Borenstein
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-02
Overkill written by Eliot Borenstein and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 more and more Russians. Free from censorship for the first time in Russia's history, the popular culture industry (publishing, film, and television) began to disseminate works that featured increasingly explicit images and descriptions of sex and violence. In Overkill, Eliot Borenstein explores this lurid and often-disturbing cultural landscape in close, imaginative readings of such works as You're Just a Slut, My Dear! (Ty prosto shliukha, dorogaia!), a novel about sexual slavery and illegal organ harvesting; the Nympho trilogy of books featuring a Chechen-fighting sex addict; and the Mad Dog and Antikiller series of books and films recounting, respectively, the exploits of the Russian Rambo and an assassin killing in the cause of justice. 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. For Borenstein, the myriad depictions of deviance in pornographic and also detectiv fiction, with their patently excessive and appalling details of social and moral decay, represented the popular culture industry's response to the otherwise unimaginable scale of Russia's national collapse. "The full sense of collapse," he writes, "required a panoptic view that only the media and culture industry were eager to provide, amalgamating national collapse into one master narrative that would then be readily available to most individuals as a framework for understanding their own suffering and their own fears."
Russian Popular Culture
DOWNLOAD
Author : Richard Stites
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Russian Popular Culture written by Richard Stites and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Mass Culture In Soviet Russia
DOWNLOAD
Author : James Von Geldern
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1995
Mass Culture In Soviet Russia written by James Von Geldern and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Offers an array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, and folklore to offer a look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. This work focuses on the entertainment genres that both shaped and reflected the social, political, and personal values of the regime and the masses.
Consuming Russia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Adele Marie Barker
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1999
Consuming Russia written by Adele Marie Barker and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A timely study of the "new Russia" at the end of the twentieth century.
Sexuality And The Body In Russian Culture
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jane T. Costlow
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1993
Sexuality And The Body In Russian Culture written by Jane T. Costlow and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day.
Russian Culture In The Age Of Globalization
DOWNLOAD
Author : Vlad Strukov
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-11
Russian Culture In The Age Of Globalization written by Vlad Strukov and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-11 with Social Science categories.
This book brings together scholars from across a variety of disciplines who use different methodologies to interrogate the changing nature of Russian culture in the twenty-first century. The book considers a wide range of cultural forms that have been instrumental in globalizing Russia. These include literature, art, music, film, media, the internet, sport, urban spaces, and the Russian language. The book pays special attention to the processes by which cultural producers negotiate between Russian government and global cultural capital. It focuses on the issues of canon, identity, soft power and cultural exchange. The book provides a conceptual framework for analyzing Russia as a transnational entity and its contemporary culture in the globalized world.
The Culture Of Russia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Emily Sebastian
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2018-07-15
The Culture Of Russia written by Emily Sebastian and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-15 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Though current events have brought Russia into the spotlight of late, many Americans still have only the haziest notion of Russian culture. This wide-ranging reference introduces the peoples, languages, and religions of Russia and also delves into such facets of Russian culture as sports, the media, holidays, traditional foods, and education. Chapters devoted to architecture, the visual arts, literature, and the performing arts highlight the best of Russia's cultural heritage, including the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the films of Sergey Eisenstein, the music of Tchaikovsky and Sergey Prokofiev, and the churches of Pskov. Readers will find this volume to be a fascinating introduction to a rich, complex culture.
Passion And Perception
DOWNLOAD
Author : Richard Stites
language : en
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2010
Passion And Perception written by Richard Stites and has been published by New Academia Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
This collection of "Stitesiana" includes 29 essays on Russian culture, representing the bulk of 20 years of scholarship, in addition to well-known monographs and diverse pieces in popular magazines.