Overkill sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture - Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-; ebrary, Inc. (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: 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 -- Russia (Federation) -- History and criticism; Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation); Electronic books