Tales of Russianness: Post-Soviet identity formation in popular film and television
Journal: UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Year: 2015

In this study, I explore contemporary popular film and television representations of Russian cultural identity after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. My corpus includes two blockbusters: Brother (Brat, dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 1997) and Brother-2 (Brat-2, dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 2000); two comic television series: The Enchanted District (Zakoldovannyi uchastok, dir. Aleksandr Baranov, 2006) and Real-Life Lads (Real’nye patsany, dir. Jeanna Kadnikova, 2010 - present); and, finally, two melo