Russian cultural studies : an introduction
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Russian cultural studies : an introduction
Oxford University Press, 1998
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Constructing Russian culture in the age of revolution, 1881-1940
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"Intended as a companion to 'Constructing Russian culture in the age of revolution, 1881-1940' ... covering a later period until the present day"--CIP info. p
Includes bibliographical references and index
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:[hbk] ISBN 9780198715108
Description
Intended as a companion to "Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940" (also published by OUP) and covering a later period until the present day, this book should be of interest to all those interested in Russian culture in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. In a wide-ranging account of a variety of cultural forms and sites of cultural production - from literature to advertising and consumerism - the book sets out to give prominence to the processes of cultural reception. It highlights the role images of national identity, gender politics, youth culture and the interaction of public and private consciousness have played in the formation of cultural forms in the USSR and post-communist Russia. Contributors include leading specialists in Russian literature, cultural history, and cultural theory from Britain, the USA, and Russia. The text includes a chronology of events and suggestions for further reading with each section.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Why Cultural Studies?
- PART I: THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE
- 2. 'Revolutionary' Models for High Literature: Resisting Poetics
- 3. Culture and Crisis: The Intelligentsia and Literature After 1953
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART II: THEATRE, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
- 4. Performing Culture: Theatre
- 5. Music in the Socialist State
- 6. Soviet Music after the Death of Stalin: The Legacy of Shostakovich
- 7. Building a New Reality: The Visual Arts, 1921-53
- 8. The Art of the Political Poster
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART III: CINEMA, MEDIA, THE RUSSIAN CONSUMER
- 9. Cinema
- 10. The Media as Social Engineer
- 11. Creating a Consumer: Advertising and Commercialisation
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART IV: IDENTITIES: POPULISM, RELIGION, EMIGRATION
- 12. The Retreat from Dogmatism: Populism Under Krushchev and Brezhnev
- 13. Religion and Orthodoxy
- 14. Russian Culture and Emigration, 1921-53
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART V: SEXUALITY, GENDER, YOUTH CULTURE
- 15. Sexuality
- 16. Gender Angst in Russian Society and Cinema in the Post-Stalin Era
- 17. 'The Future is Ours': Youth Culture in Russia, 1953 to the Present
- Suggested Further Reading
- Conclusion: Towards Post-Soviet Pluralism? Postmodernism and Beyond
- Chronology of Events from 1861
- Analytical Index of Names and Places
- Subject Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780198715115
Description
Intended as a companion to Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940 (also published by OUP) and covering a later period until the present day, this stimulating, original, and controversial book will not only be a vital resource for university courses on Russian culture at undergraduate and postgraduate level but essential reading for all those interested in Russian culture in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.
In a wide-ranging account of a variety of cultural forms and sites of cultural production-literature, cinema, radio, television, the visual arts, journalism, advertising and consumerism, music, theatre, the Church-the book sets out to give greater prominence to the processes of cultural reception than in previous texts. The book highlights the role images of national identity, gender politics , youth culture and the interaction of public and private consciousness have played in the
formation of cultural forms in the USSR and post-communist Russia. Drawing extensively but critically on the theoretical agenda of contemporary cultural studies the book challenges the `top-down' model according to which cultural production is determined principally by its relationship to `high' politics
and political institutions.
Contributors include leading specialists in Russian literature, cultural history, and cultural theory from Britain, the USA, and Russia and the text is liberally illustrated with picture features and includes a chronology of events and suggestions for further reading with each section.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Why Cultural Studies?
- PART I: THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE
- 2. 'Revolutionary' Models for High Literature: Resisting Poetics
- 3. Culture and Crisis: The Intelligentsia and Literature After 1953
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART II: THEATRE, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
- 4. Performing Culture: Theatre
- 5. Music in the Socialist State
- 6. Soviet Music after the Death of Stalin: The Legacy of Shostakovich
- 7. Building a New Reality: The Visual Arts, 1921-53
- 8. The Art of the Political Poster
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART III: CINEMA, MEDIA, THE RUSSIAN CONSUMER
- 9. Cinema
- 10. The Media as Social Engineer
- 11. Creating a Consumer: Advertising and Commercialisation
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART IV: IDENTITIES: POPULISM, RELIGION, EMIGRATION
- 12. The Retreat from Dogmatism: Populism Under Krushchev and Brezhnev
- 13. Religion and Orthodoxy
- 14. Russian Culture and Emigration, 1921-53
- Suggested Further Reading
- PART V: SEXUALITY, GENDER, YOUTH CULTURE
- 15. Sexuality
- 16. Gender Angst in Russian Society and Cinema in the Post-Stalin Era
- 17. 'The Future is Ours': Youth Culture in Russia, 1953 to the Present
- Suggested Further Reading
- Conclusion: Towards Post-Soviet Pluralism? Postmodernism and Beyond
- Chronology of Events from 1861
- Analytical Index of Names and Places
- Subject Index
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