Overkill : : Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture / / Eliot Borenstein.
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 cu...
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Borenstein, Eliot, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Overkill : Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture / Eliot Borenstein. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (288 p.) : 9 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Culture and Society after Socialism Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One. ABOUT THAT -- Chapter Two. STRIPPING THE NATION BARE -- Chapter Three. PIMPING THE MOTHERLAND -- Chapter Four. TO BE CONTINUED -- Chapter Five. WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES -- Chapter Six. MEN OF ACTION -- Chapter Seven. OVERKILL -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 crime 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." Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Literary Studies. Popular Culture. Soviet & East European History. LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801445835 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801463457 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801463457 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801463457/original |
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