Overkill

Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-

Overkill sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture / [electronic resource] : Sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture Eliot Borenstein. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008. - xv, 265 p. : ill. - Culture and society after socialism . - Culture and society after socialism. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Popular 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--History and criticism.--Russia (Federation)
Post-communism--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)


Electronic books.

HM621 / .B67 2008eb

306.70947/090511