Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film

Bibliographic Data

ID23540429
AuthorsIrina Souch (0000-0001-6886-6001)
Year2017
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePopular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781501329050
OpenAlexW2923180329
ISBN9781501329050
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This book is an exploration of the changes in Russian cultural identity in the twenty years after the fall of the Soviet state. Through close readings of a select number of contemporary Russian films and television series, Irina Souch investigates how a variety of popular cultural tropes ranging from the patriarchal family to the country idyll survived the demise of Communism and maintained their power to inform the Russian people's self-image. She shows how these tropes continue to define attitudes towards political authority, economic disparity, ethnic and cultural difference, generational relations and gender. The author also introduces theories of identity developed in Russia at the same time, enabling these works to act as sites of productive dialogue with the more familiar discourses of Western scholarship.

Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Literature · Media studies · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Media Studies and Communication · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia

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