Overkill
Subtitle: sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
By: Eliot Borenstein.
Series: Culture and society after socialism
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780801445835; 9780801474033
Subjects: Popular culture -- Russia (Federation); Culture -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation); Sex in popular culture -- Russia (Federation); Violence in popular culture -- Russia (Federation); Sex in mass media; Violence in mass media; Popular literature -- Russia (Federation) -- History and criticism; Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
Other titles: Sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: About that : sex and its metaphors; title: Stripping the nation bare : pornography as politics; title: Pimping the motherland : Russia bought and sold; title: To be continued : death and the art of serial storytelling; title: Women who run with the wolves; title: Men of action : heroic melodrama and the passion of Mad Dog; title: Overkill : bespredel and gratuitous violence; title: Conclusion : someone like Putin.