The Russian Woman as Sexual Subject: Evolving Images in U.S. Television and Film, 2012-2016
Journal: Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon)
Year: 2016

In American entertainment media Russian women overwhelmingly appear in sexualized contexts. For the past 25 years, since the Soviet Union was dissolved, there has been a consistent drive to represent on only a handful of narrative categories. These can be reduced essentially to sex trafficking, mail-order brides, and sexual espionage. Despite this limited repertoire, over the past five years there has been significant variation in approaches taken to those categories. This study offers a surveye