Overkill sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture

Overkill sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borenstein, Eliot 1966- (Author)
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York Cornell University Press 2008.
Series:Culture and society after socialism
Subjects:
Popular culture > Russia (Federation)
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)
Table of 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 Putin.