Galina Miazhevich
Biographic Data
| ID | 324902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Galina Miazhevich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Galina |
| FAMILY NAME | Miazhevich |
| SIGNATURE | MIAZHEVICH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9233-7097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘She Is Not A(lone) Warrior on the Battlefield’: Do-it-yourself anti-war activist selves in a modern-day samizdat , Zhenskaia Pravda
This article analyses a wartime feminist publication, Zhenskaia Pravda (Women's Truth), founded by the Feminist Anti-War Resistance shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We examine the publication as an activist do-it-yourself newspaper and a contemporary version of Soviet samizdat . We explore how, in its 41 issues, it speaks to the intended Russian female readers and, we suggest, invites them to take part in anti-war ac…
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment
This paper examines the role of female macro-celebrity as a mediator of public views during an ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The focus is on the 75-year-old cult pop-artist Alla Pugacheva—one of the few high-profile Russian celebrities who declared an anti-war stance. By using digital ethnography and multimodal discourse analysis of Pugacheva’s mediated public stance over two years (2022-2024), the study shows that the actress c…
Russian ‘De/Fault’ Feminism, or the Phenomenon of Post-Soviet Post-Feminism
From Celebrity Feminism to Feminist Anti-War Resistance
The research project “Mediated Feminism(s) in Contemporary Russia” (FEMCORUS 2021–25) informs this research note. Our empirical observations highlight the key trends in the dynamics of mediated feminism in Russia, prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and, subsequently, up until autumn 2024. This note considers a decade (2013–22) of the popularization of feminist discourses bolstered by social media sites, influencer c…
Queering Russian Media and Culture
An innocent provocation or homoerotic challenge? Mediations of the ‘ Satisfaction’ video parody in the Russian mediascape
Within Putin's conservative nation-building agenda, the Russian mediascape excludes or marginalises non-heteronormative sexualities’ voices from the official discourse. However, certain manifestations of non-heteronormative sexualities infiltrate public space through convergent traditional and new media (Jenkins, 2006, Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide. New York University Press) and the performativity of non-heteronormative se…
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music
This article examines the post-Soviet transformations of Russian popular music culture ( Estrada), arguing that its aesthetics can be analysed from the perspective of camp, by looking at two cult music performers bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet realm – Valery Leontiev and Filipp Kirkorov. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of the artists’ career trajectories, selected videos and – to a lesser extent – textual analysis of their lyrics…
Politics, Activism and Trolling on the Russian Internet
In the years that have passed since the social media powered protest movement of 2011-2012, the Russian government has dramatically expanded its restrictions on the Internet, while simultaneously consolidating its grip on traditional media. The Internet, which long provided a space for alternative media and free speech to blossom, is becoming increasingly restricted by a growing corpus of legislation and expanding state surveillance. With legally…
Introduction: The Russian media system at a crossroads
This special issue provides a timely reflection on the Russian media system, which is currently at a crossroads. In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of previous theorisations of the post-Soviet Russian media and suggest that they seemingly go in waves. The first wave, to our mind, is linked to the analysis of the perestroika’s ‘Glasnost’ and the dramatic shifts following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This wave is foll…
Mediated resistance in post-Soviet communicative ecologies: The case of ‘Chinese industrial park’ in Belarus
The paper adopts a ‘communicative ecologies’ framework and problematizes it further by exploring a collective protest campaign in post-Soviet Belarus. This study explains how mediated civic protest communication is embedded in the socio-economic, political and cultural structures of a society. It focuses on a recent case involving civic resistance towards the construction of a so-called ‘Chinese industrial park’ near the capital of Belarus. The 5…
The soft power of commercialised nationalist symbols: Using media analysis to understand nation branding campaigns
Since the late 1990s, nation branding has attracted a lot of attention from academics, professional consultants and government actors. The ideas and practices of nation branding are frequently presented by branding advocates as necessary and even inevitable in the light of changing dynamics of political power and influence in a globalised and media-saturated world. In this context, some have argued that nation branding is a way to reduce internat…
Nation branding in the post-broadcast era: The case of RT
The article examines Russia’s international multinational broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today), which was launched in 2005 with the direct support of the Russian government. RT promotes a distinct ‘counter-hegemonic’ brand of broadcasting. This article goes beyond RT’s branding to explore the broadcaster’s nation branding of Russia. It considers the range of strategies used by RT, placing these within RT’s change of mission – from ‘informing ot…
A Comparative Cyberconflict Analysis of Digital Activism Across Post-Soviet Countries
This article analyses digital activism comparatively in relation to three Post-Soviet regions: Russian/anti-Russian in Crimea and online political deliberation in Belarus, in juxtaposition to Estonia’s digital governance approach. The authors show that in civil societies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, cultural forms of digital activism, such as internet memes, thrive and produce and reproduce effective forms of political deliberation. In contras…
Paradoxes of new media: Digital discourses on Eurovision 2014, media flows and post-Soviet nation-building
This article explores the contradictions inherent in new media representations of sexual minorities in two bordering post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Lithuania. These nations are divided by their non/membership of the European Union and, being at the western periphery of the former Russian imperial centre, remain directly affected by the Russian mediascape and its information flows. While both countries’ state media closely adhere to the Russia…
Sites of subversion: Online political satire in two post-Soviet states
This article questions the Internet’s ability to foster a civil society and to be a counter hegemonic force using the case of grassroots political satire. It focuses on two post-Soviet states – an authoritarian dictatorship of Belarus and an aspiring democracy of Ukraine – where the subversive potential of the online satire plays out in dramatically different ways. Drawing on the Soviet legacy of ironic participatory popular culture, this article…
Russia Today 's coverage of Euromaidan
As I was writing this response to the forum about Euromaidan, the clashes on 18 February 2014 erupted. As there should be a cut-off point for analysing this ‘winter of discontent’ in Ukraine, I will concentrate on the events as they unfolded until 21 February 2014. I approach the issue of Euromaidan from a Media and Cultural studies perspective. After a brief insight on how Euromaidan is seen in Russia, I will analyse how Russia's soft power tool…
Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural
Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims have received unprecedented attention since 9/11. In many predominantly non-Muslim countries intense debates have focused on international relations with Muslim-majority states, but dilemmas of national policy and practice in incorporating domestic Muslim minorities have also provoked heated argument. Meanwhile, within predominantly Muslim societies, and within Muslim diasporas, relationships with non-Mus…
Islam, Security and Television News
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and so
Ukrainian Nation Branding Off-line and Online: Verka Serduchka at the Eurovision Song Contest
This essay looks at the role of the Eurovision Song Contest—an annual regularised European media event—in fostering the reconceptualisation of national selves of participating states. It draws attention to the representations of ‘new’ post-Soviet national brands at Eurovision in their interspatial (national, international and transnational) and inter-temporal (Soviet and post-Soviet) dimensions using the case of Ukraine. The essay argues that, th…
Sexual Excess in Russia’s Eurovision Performances as a Nation Branding Tool
The article focuses on the annual media event that is the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival of Eurovision, as the current heated debate about its relevance, nature and essence reveals, is an important phenomenon in the cultural life of contemporary Europe. The annual cycle of preparation for, and participation in, Eurovision is a useful lens for examining the “branding” of the contributing nations. The article investigates how recent transfor…
Television, Nation Building and the Everyday in Contemporary Russia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsStephen HutchingsStephen Hutchings is a professor in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester, UK ([email protected]).Galina MiazhevichGalina Miazhevich is a Gorbachev Media Research Fellow in the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, UK ([email protected])
Daily Television News Coverage of Islamism as Security Threat: A Comparative Analysis (Russia, France, Britain)
Moderating the Extreme: The Role of Vladimir Pozner’s Vremena in Russian State Television Responses to the Rise of Xenophobia
This article addresses the mediation of interethnic cohesion issues in Russian news and discussion programs, exploring the contradictions inherent in media consensus building in a post-totalitarian Russia beset by rising xenophobia. Operating under the theoretical umbrella of Laclauan hegemony modified for the post-Soviet context, it treats issues of framing, voice, structure of dialogue, and the role of the host. The article focuses on coverage …
Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC's paradoxical remit and the case of Islam-related television news
This article examines the paradoxical requirements of the BBC's public service broadcasting (PSB) remit, which prescribes impartiality, fairness and balance in news reporting but also requires the broadcaster to serve specified civic values deemed fundamental to British society. Since this combination of civic values is not ideologically neutral, it raises the question of how liberal ideological assumptions are communicated in news items purporti…
The Polonium trail to Islam: Litvinenko, liminality, and television's (cold) war on terror
This article examines how Aleksandr Litvinenko's death links the ‘war on terror’ with an emergent New Cold War. Based on an analysis of BBC and Russian Channel 1 news bulletins, it highlights the centrality of the post-imperial legacy of the two sides in the dispute to the manner of its unfolding, and to how war on terror discourse reconstructs national identities and international antagonisms. It draws on narratology to account for Litvinenko's …
Nation branding in the post-broadcast era: The case of RT
The article examines Russia’s international multinational broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today), which was launched in 2005 with the direct support of the Russian government. RT promotes a distinct ‘counter-hegemonic’ brand of broadcasting. This article goes beyond RT’s branding to explore the broadcaster’s nation branding of Russia. It considers the range of strategies used by RT, placing these within RT’s change of mission – from ‘informing ot…
The soft power of commercialised nationalist symbols: Using media analysis to understand nation branding campaigns
Since the late 1990s, nation branding has attracted a lot of attention from academics, professional consultants and government actors. The ideas and practices of nation branding are frequently presented by branding advocates as necessary and even inevitable in the light of changing dynamics of political power and influence in a globalised and media-saturated world. In this context, some have argued that nation branding is a way to reduce internat…
Ukrainian Nation Branding Off-line and Online: Verka Serduchka at the Eurovision Song Contest
This essay looks at the role of the Eurovision Song Contest—an annual regularised European media event—in fostering the reconceptualisation of national selves of participating states. It draws attention to the representations of ‘new’ post-Soviet national brands at Eurovision in their interspatial (national, international and transnational) and inter-temporal (Soviet and post-Soviet) dimensions using the case of Ukraine. The essay argues that, th…
Paradoxes of new media: Digital discourses on Eurovision 2014, media flows and post-Soviet nation-building
This article explores the contradictions inherent in new media representations of sexual minorities in two bordering post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Lithuania. These nations are divided by their non/membership of the European Union and, being at the western periphery of the former Russian imperial centre, remain directly affected by the Russian mediascape and its information flows. While both countries’ state media closely adhere to the Russia…
Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC's paradoxical remit and the case of Islam-related television news
This article examines the paradoxical requirements of the BBC's public service broadcasting (PSB) remit, which prescribes impartiality, fairness and balance in news reporting but also requires the broadcaster to serve specified civic values deemed fundamental to British society. Since this combination of civic values is not ideologically neutral, it raises the question of how liberal ideological assumptions are communicated in news items purporti…
Official media discourse and the self-representation of entrepreneurs in Belarus
Within the diverging realm of Eastern Europe, the Republic of Belarus demonstrates one of the most extreme examples of ‘distorted’ transition. In addition to preserving numerous elements of the former political, nepotistic and quota-based state-controlled system, the slow process of restructuring of the inherited communist institutions in Belarus is coupled with the state's attempt at conserving the phenomenon of ‘Soviet’ Belarus. In this context…
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music
This article examines the post-Soviet transformations of Russian popular music culture ( Estrada), arguing that its aesthetics can be analysed from the perspective of camp, by looking at two cult music performers bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet realm – Valery Leontiev and Filipp Kirkorov. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of the artists’ career trajectories, selected videos and – to a lesser extent – textual analysis of their lyrics…
A Comparative Cyberconflict Analysis of Digital Activism Across Post-Soviet Countries
This article analyses digital activism comparatively in relation to three Post-Soviet regions: Russian/anti-Russian in Crimea and online political deliberation in Belarus, in juxtaposition to Estonia’s digital governance approach. The authors show that in civil societies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, cultural forms of digital activism, such as internet memes, thrive and produce and reproduce effective forms of political deliberation. In contras…
Sites of subversion: Online political satire in two post-Soviet states
This article questions the Internet’s ability to foster a civil society and to be a counter hegemonic force using the case of grassroots political satire. It focuses on two post-Soviet states – an authoritarian dictatorship of Belarus and an aspiring democracy of Ukraine – where the subversive potential of the online satire plays out in dramatically different ways. Drawing on the Soviet legacy of ironic participatory popular culture, this article…
Russia Today 's coverage of Euromaidan
As I was writing this response to the forum about Euromaidan, the clashes on 18 February 2014 erupted. As there should be a cut-off point for analysing this ‘winter of discontent’ in Ukraine, I will concentrate on the events as they unfolded until 21 February 2014. I approach the issue of Euromaidan from a Media and Cultural studies perspective. After a brief insight on how Euromaidan is seen in Russia, I will analyse how Russia's soft power tool…
Sexual Excess in Russia’s Eurovision Performances as a Nation Branding Tool
The article focuses on the annual media event that is the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival of Eurovision, as the current heated debate about its relevance, nature and essence reveals, is an important phenomenon in the cultural life of contemporary Europe. The annual cycle of preparation for, and participation in, Eurovision is a useful lens for examining the “branding” of the contributing nations. The article investigates how recent transfor…
Television, Nation Building and the Everyday in Contemporary Russia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsStephen HutchingsStephen Hutchings is a professor in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester, UK ([email protected]).Galina MiazhevichGalina Miazhevich is a Gorbachev Media Research Fellow in the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, UK ([email protected])
From Celebrity Feminism to Feminist Anti-War Resistance
The research project “Mediated Feminism(s) in Contemporary Russia” (FEMCORUS 2021–25) informs this research note. Our empirical observations highlight the key trends in the dynamics of mediated feminism in Russia, prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and, subsequently, up until autumn 2024. This note considers a decade (2013–22) of the popularization of feminist discourses bolstered by social media sites, influencer c…
Moderating the Extreme: The Role of Vladimir Pozner’s Vremena in Russian State Television Responses to the Rise of Xenophobia
This article addresses the mediation of interethnic cohesion issues in Russian news and discussion programs, exploring the contradictions inherent in media consensus building in a post-totalitarian Russia beset by rising xenophobia. Operating under the theoretical umbrella of Laclauan hegemony modified for the post-Soviet context, it treats issues of framing, voice, structure of dialogue, and the role of the host. The article focuses on coverage …
The emerging identity of women managers in post‐Soviet Belarus
Purpose The paper critically reviews women managers' experiences of managing transition in post‐Soviet Belarus. The main aim of the paper is to explore the emerging learning experiences and learning practices of women managers in Belarus who are working in small and medium‐size business enterprises. Design/methodology/approach The paper commences with an exploration of the country context. It then seeks to draw attention to ongoing economic, poli…
Official media discourse and the self-representation of entrepreneurs in Belarus
Within the diverging realm of Eastern Europe, the Republic of Belarus demonstrates one of the most extreme examples of ‘distorted’ transition. In addition to preserving numerous elements of the former political, nepotistic and quota-based state-controlled system, the slow process of restructuring of the inherited communist institutions in Belarus is coupled with the state's attempt at conserving the phenomenon of ‘Soviet’ Belarus. In this context…
Pride and panic: Russian imagination of the West in post-Soviet film
Impact of “Islamic Extremism” on TV News Representations of Multiculturalism, Intégration and Mnogonarodnost’: A Comparative Analysis
This article examines how television in the United Kingdom, France and Russia has managed shifts in consensus resulting from the recent rise of “Islamic extremism.” The research is based on recordings from news bulletins on “Establishment” channels (BBC1, France 2, 1st Channel). We conclude that hybridity in multiculturalist discourse is highest within the BBC, where a robust “hegemonic chain” has facilitated representation of the widest range of…
The Polonium trail to Islam: Litvinenko, liminality, and television's (cold) war on terror
This article examines how Aleksandr Litvinenko's death links the ‘war on terror’ with an emergent New Cold War. Based on an analysis of BBC and Russian Channel 1 news bulletins, it highlights the centrality of the post-imperial legacy of the two sides in the dispute to the manner of its unfolding, and to how war on terror discourse reconstructs national identities and international antagonisms. It draws on narratology to account for Litvinenko's …
Hybridisation of business norms as intercultural dialogue: The case of two post-Soviet countries
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the nature of the cultural shift in business norms in two former Soviet Union republics: Estonia and Belarus. While questioning the linearity of existing models describing social—cultural change and, drawing on Lotman’s model (1990), the paper points to a complex interplay of past and present, Western and local traditions in the transformational context of the post-Soviet countries. The analysis is…
Sexual Excess in Russia’s Eurovision Performances as a Nation Branding Tool
The article focuses on the annual media event that is the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival of Eurovision, as the current heated debate about its relevance, nature and essence reveals, is an important phenomenon in the cultural life of contemporary Europe. The annual cycle of preparation for, and participation in, Eurovision is a useful lens for examining the “branding” of the contributing nations. The article investigates how recent transfor…
Television, Nation Building and the Everyday in Contemporary Russia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsStephen HutchingsStephen Hutchings is a professor in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester, UK ([email protected]).Galina MiazhevichGalina Miazhevich is a Gorbachev Media Research Fellow in the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, UK ([email protected])
Daily Television News Coverage of Islamism as Security Threat: A Comparative Analysis (Russia, France, Britain)
Moderating the Extreme: The Role of Vladimir Pozner’s Vremena in Russian State Television Responses to the Rise of Xenophobia
This article addresses the mediation of interethnic cohesion issues in Russian news and discussion programs, exploring the contradictions inherent in media consensus building in a post-totalitarian Russia beset by rising xenophobia. Operating under the theoretical umbrella of Laclauan hegemony modified for the post-Soviet context, it treats issues of framing, voice, structure of dialogue, and the role of the host. The article focuses on coverage …
Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC's paradoxical remit and the case of Islam-related television news
This article examines the paradoxical requirements of the BBC's public service broadcasting (PSB) remit, which prescribes impartiality, fairness and balance in news reporting but also requires the broadcaster to serve specified civic values deemed fundamental to British society. Since this combination of civic values is not ideologically neutral, it raises the question of how liberal ideological assumptions are communicated in news items purporti…
Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural
Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims have received unprecedented attention since 9/11. In many predominantly non-Muslim countries intense debates have focused on international relations with Muslim-majority states, but dilemmas of national policy and practice in incorporating domestic Muslim minorities have also provoked heated argument. Meanwhile, within predominantly Muslim societies, and within Muslim diasporas, relationships with non-Mus…
Islam, Security and Television News
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and so
Ukrainian Nation Branding Off-line and Online: Verka Serduchka at the Eurovision Song Contest
This essay looks at the role of the Eurovision Song Contest—an annual regularised European media event—in fostering the reconceptualisation of national selves of participating states. It draws attention to the representations of ‘new’ post-Soviet national brands at Eurovision in their interspatial (national, international and transnational) and inter-temporal (Soviet and post-Soviet) dimensions using the case of Ukraine. The essay argues that, th…
Russia Today 's coverage of Euromaidan
As I was writing this response to the forum about Euromaidan, the clashes on 18 February 2014 erupted. As there should be a cut-off point for analysing this ‘winter of discontent’ in Ukraine, I will concentrate on the events as they unfolded until 21 February 2014. I approach the issue of Euromaidan from a Media and Cultural studies perspective. After a brief insight on how Euromaidan is seen in Russia, I will analyse how Russia's soft power tool…
Paradoxes of new media: Digital discourses on Eurovision 2014, media flows and post-Soviet nation-building
This article explores the contradictions inherent in new media representations of sexual minorities in two bordering post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Lithuania. These nations are divided by their non/membership of the European Union and, being at the western periphery of the former Russian imperial centre, remain directly affected by the Russian mediascape and its information flows. While both countries’ state media closely adhere to the Russia…
Sites of subversion: Online political satire in two post-Soviet states
This article questions the Internet’s ability to foster a civil society and to be a counter hegemonic force using the case of grassroots political satire. It focuses on two post-Soviet states – an authoritarian dictatorship of Belarus and an aspiring democracy of Ukraine – where the subversive potential of the online satire plays out in dramatically different ways. Drawing on the Soviet legacy of ironic participatory popular culture, this article…
A Comparative Cyberconflict Analysis of Digital Activism Across Post-Soviet Countries
This article analyses digital activism comparatively in relation to three Post-Soviet regions: Russian/anti-Russian in Crimea and online political deliberation in Belarus, in juxtaposition to Estonia’s digital governance approach. The authors show that in civil societies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, cultural forms of digital activism, such as internet memes, thrive and produce and reproduce effective forms of political deliberation. In contras…
The soft power of commercialised nationalist symbols: Using media analysis to understand nation branding campaigns
Since the late 1990s, nation branding has attracted a lot of attention from academics, professional consultants and government actors. The ideas and practices of nation branding are frequently presented by branding advocates as necessary and even inevitable in the light of changing dynamics of political power and influence in a globalised and media-saturated world. In this context, some have argued that nation branding is a way to reduce internat…
Nation branding in the post-broadcast era: The case of RT
The article examines Russia’s international multinational broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today), which was launched in 2005 with the direct support of the Russian government. RT promotes a distinct ‘counter-hegemonic’ brand of broadcasting. This article goes beyond RT’s branding to explore the broadcaster’s nation branding of Russia. It considers the range of strategies used by RT, placing these within RT’s change of mission – from ‘informing ot…
Introduction: The Russian media system at a crossroads
This special issue provides a timely reflection on the Russian media system, which is currently at a crossroads. In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of previous theorisations of the post-Soviet Russian media and suggest that they seemingly go in waves. The first wave, to our mind, is linked to the analysis of the perestroika’s ‘Glasnost’ and the dramatic shifts following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This wave is foll…
Mediated resistance in post-Soviet communicative ecologies: The case of ‘Chinese industrial park’ in Belarus
The paper adopts a ‘communicative ecologies’ framework and problematizes it further by exploring a collective protest campaign in post-Soviet Belarus. This study explains how mediated civic protest communication is embedded in the socio-economic, political and cultural structures of a society. It focuses on a recent case involving civic resistance towards the construction of a so-called ‘Chinese industrial park’ near the capital of Belarus. The 5…
Politics, Activism and Trolling on the Russian Internet
In the years that have passed since the social media powered protest movement of 2011-2012, the Russian government has dramatically expanded its restrictions on the Internet, while simultaneously consolidating its grip on traditional media. The Internet, which long provided a space for alternative media and free speech to blossom, is becoming increasingly restricted by a growing corpus of legislation and expanding state surveillance. With legally…
An innocent provocation or homoerotic challenge? Mediations of the ‘ Satisfaction’ video parody in the Russian mediascape
Within Putin's conservative nation-building agenda, the Russian mediascape excludes or marginalises non-heteronormative sexualities’ voices from the official discourse. However, certain manifestations of non-heteronormative sexualities infiltrate public space through convergent traditional and new media (Jenkins, 2006, Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide. New York University Press) and the performativity of non-heteronormative se…
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music
This article examines the post-Soviet transformations of Russian popular music culture ( Estrada), arguing that its aesthetics can be analysed from the perspective of camp, by looking at two cult music performers bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet realm – Valery Leontiev and Filipp Kirkorov. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of the artists’ career trajectories, selected videos and – to a lesser extent – textual analysis of their lyrics…
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