Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture /
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 m...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Culture and society after socialism.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.