POPULAR TROPES OF IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN TELEVISION AND FILM
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- Author: IRINA SOUCH
- ISBN: 9781501329067
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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.