Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film
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Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film

Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film

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Irina Souch (Author)  

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This book is an exploration of the changes in Russian cultural identity in the twenty years after the fall of the Soviet state. Through close readings of a select number of contemporary Russian films and television series, Irina Souch investigates how a variety of popular cultural tropes ranging from the patriarchal family to the country idyll survived the demise of Communism and maintained their power to inform the Russian people's self-image. She shows how these tropes continue to define attitudes towards political authority, economic disparity, ethnic and cultural difference, generational relations and gender. The author also introduces theories of identity developed in Russia at the same time, enabling these works to act as sites of productive dialogue with the more familiar discourses of Western scholarship. 49 bw illus
Irina Souch is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Contributor: Irina Souch
  • Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • ISBN13: 9781501329067
  • Number of Pages: 248
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 499
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Release Date: 2017-11-16
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Irina Souch is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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