Looking West?
Subtitle: cultural globalization and Russian youth cultures
By: Hilary Pilkington ... [et al.]
Contributors: Pilkington, Hilary, 1964-
Series: Post-Communist cultural studies series; Post-Communist cultural studies
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Youth -- Russia (Federation) -- Attitudes; Mass media and youth -- Russia (Federation); Globalization
Description: "Looking West? engages theories of cultural globalization to chart how post-Soviet Russia's opening up to the West has been reflected in the cultural practices of its young people.".

"The younger generation has adopted a "pick and mix" strategy with regard to Western cultural commodities that reflects a receptiveness to the global alongside a precious guarding of the local. The authors show us how young people perceive Russia to be positioned in current global flows of cultural exchange, what their sense of Russia's place in the new global order is, and how they manage to "live with the West" on a daily basis."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-278) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Hilary Pilkington; title: Cultural globalization : a peripheral perspective / Hilary Pilkington and Ul'iana Bliudina; title: On the outside looking in? : the place of youth in Russia's new media and information space / Elena Omel'chenko and Ul'iana Bliudina; title: Talking global? : images of the West in the youth media / Moya Flynn and Elena Starkova; title: Through their own eyes : young people's images of "the West" / Elena Omel'chenko and Moya Flynn; title: "Progressives" and "Normals" : strategies for global living / Hilary Pilkington (with Elena Starkova); title: The dark side of the moon? : global and local horizons / Hilary Pilkington; title: Reconfiguring "the West" : style and music in Russian youth cultural practice / Hilary Pilkington; title: Living with the West / Hilary Pilkington and Elena Omel'chenko