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Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
- Title
- Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture / Eliot Borenstein.
- Author
- Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 265 p. ; ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Culture and society after socialism
- Alternative Title
- Sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
- Subject
- 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)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *QD 08-625
- ISBN
- 9780801445835 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801445833 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801474033 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801474035 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007028831
- OCLC
- 154706642
- Author
- Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-
- Title
- Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture / Eliot Borenstein.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Series
- Culture and society after socialism
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *QD 08-625