Russia's New Fin de Siècle
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Russia's New Fin de Siècle

Contemporary Culture between Past and Present

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Russia's New Fin de Siècle

Contemporary Culture between Past and Present

About this book

This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regard to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture? This question comes at a time when Russia is concerned with integrating itself into European arts and culture while enhancing its uniqueness through references to its Soviet past. Thus, contributions investigate the phenomenon of post-Soviet culture and try to define the relationship of contemporary art to the past.

 

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contributors’ Notes
  6. Introduction: Russia’s New fin de siècle: Contemporary Culture between Past and Present
  7. PART I: Written Discourse
  8. Chapter 1: The Function of the Soviet Experience in Post-Soviet Discourse
  9. Chapter 2: Cycles, Continuity and Change in Contemporary Russian Culture
  10. Chapter 3: Victor Pelevin and the Void
  11. Chapter 4: From Homo Zapiens to Media Sapiens: Post-Soviet Television in Russian Fiction
  12. PART II: Visual and Popular Culture
  13. Chapter 5: Afrika and Monroe – Post-Soviet Appropriation, East and West
  14. Chapter 6: Military Dandyism, Cosmism and Eurasian Imper-Art
  15. Chapter 7: Sweet Dreams: Retro Imagery on Chocolate Packaging in Post-Soviet Russia
  16. Chapter 8: Victory Day: Rituals and Practices of War Commemoration in Russia
  17. PART III: Cinematic Culture
  18. Chapter 9: A Kiss for the KGB: Putin as Cinematic Hero
  19. Chapter 10: ‘Address Your Questions to Dostoevsky’: Privatizing Punishment in Russian Cinema
  20. Chapter 11: Freedom and Uncertainty: The Cinema of Slava Tsukerman
  21. Chapter 12: Muratova’s Cinema before and after Perestroika: Deconstructing and Rebuilding Film Aesthetics
  22. Chapter 13: The Place of Action Must Not be Changed: Aleksei Balabanov’s St Petersburg
  23. Index
  24. Back Page