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Author Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-

Title Overkill [electronic resource] : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture / Eliot Borenstein.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 265 p. : ill.
Series Culture and society after socialism
Culture and society after socialism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
ISBN 9780801445835 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801474033 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801463457 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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