ISBN:
0415419077
,
9780415419079
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (251 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
BASEES / Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies 55
Parallel Title:
Print version Television and Culture in Putin's Russia : Remote Control
DDC:
302.23/450947
Keywords:
Television broadcasting of news
;
Television and politics
Abstract:
This book examines television culture in Russia under the Putin government. It demonstrates how broadcasters have been enlisted in a national identity project to install a latter-day version of imperial pride in Russian military achievements, over which Putin's government exerts a form of remote control
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 (Dis)informing Russia: Media space and discourse conflict in post-Soviet Russian television news; 2 St Petersburg 300: Television and the invention of a post-Soviet Russian (media) tradition; 3 Russia's 9/11: Performativity and discursive instability in television coverage of the Beslan atrocity; 4 Promiscuous words: The post-Soviet Tok-shou as cultural mediator and hegemonic pressure point; 5 Unful lled orders: Failed hegemony in Russia's (pseudo) military drama serials
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Laughter at the threshold: My Fair Nanny, television sitcoms and the post-Soviet struggle over taste7 (Mis)appropriating the western game show: Pole Chudes [The Field of Miracles] and the double-edged myth of the Narod; 8 Russian regional television: At the crossroads of the global, the national and the local; 9 Television through the lens of the post-Soviet viewer; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-240) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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