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Zusatztext "A rich and fascinating account of Russian culture...which somehow manages to be as deep as it is broad." Graham Roberts! University of Surrey Informationen zum Autor Catriona Kelly is Reader in Russian and Fellow at New College, OxfordDavid Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield Klappentext In a wide-ranging account of a variety of cultural forms and sites of cultural production--such as literature, cinema, radio, TV, the visual arts, journalism, advertising and consumerism, music, theatre, the Church--this groundbreaking book gives unprecedented prominence to the processes of cultural reception in the USSR and post-communist Russia. Including essays by an international roster of specialists, the volume spotlights the role that images of national identity, gender politics, and youth culture have played in the formation of cultural forms. In this regard, the interaction of Russia's public and private consciousness is also explored. Zusammenfassung The book offers a pioneering account of a wide range of cultural forms in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. It also offers a distinctive emphasis on the complex processes underlying the reception of culture. A vital resource for university courses on Russian culture, it will be essential reading for all with an interest in the subject. 1. Introduction: Why Cultural Studies?; PART I: THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE; 2. 'Revolutionary' Models for High Literature: Resisting Poetics; 3. Culture and Crisis: The Intelligentsia and Literature After 1953; Suggested Further Reading; PART II: THEATRE, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS; 4. Performing Culture: Theatre; 5. Music in the Socialist State; 6. Soviet Music after the Death of Stalin: The Legacy of Shostakovich; 7. Building a New Reality: The Visual Arts, 1921-53; 8. The Art of the Political Poster; Suggested Further Reading; PART III: CINEMA, MEDIA, THE RUSSIAN CONSUMER; 9. Cinema; 10. The Media as Social Engineer; 11. Creating a Consumer: Advertising and Commercialisation; Suggested Further Reading; PART IV: IDENTITIES: POPULISM, RELIGION, EMIGRATION; 12. The Retreat from Dogmatism: Populism Under Krushchev and Brezhnev; 13. Religion and Orthodoxy; 14. Russian Culture and Emigration, 1921-53; Suggested Further Reading; PART V: SEXUALITY, GENDER, YOUTH CULTURE; 15. Sexuality; 16. Gender Angst in Russian Society and Cinema in the Post-Stalin Era; 17. 'The Future is Ours': Youth Culture in Russia, 1953 to the Present; Suggested Further Reading; Conclusion: Towards Post-Soviet Pluralism? Postmodernism and Beyond; Chronology of Events from 1861; Analytical Index of Names and Places; Subject Index...
