Pop Culture Russia!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle by Birgit Beumers

By Birgit Beumers

Popular culture Russia!: Media, Arts, and way of life ГУМАНИТАРНЫЕ НАУКИ, КУЛЬТУРА и ИСКУССТВО Автор: Birgit Beumers Название: popular culture Russia!: Media, Arts, and way of life Издательство: ABC-CLIO Серия: pop culture within the modern international Год: 2005 Формат: pdf (rar +3%) Размер: 5,41 mb Язык: Английский/EnglishPopular tradition Russia! is designed to supply an advent to a few of the advancements in pop culture within the New Russia. This publication makes an attempt to chart the advance of pop culture in Soviet Russia in extensive phrases, on the way to set the backdrop for an in depth exploration of pop culture below Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. i've got essentially no longer coated every thing yet have chosen what seems such a lot consultant of the short improvement of up to date tradition in Russia. i couldn't even declare that i've got lined crucial trends,figures, and occasions - simply historical past will display that.0

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Ed. John Storey, 23–24. London: Prentice Hall. Stites, Richard. 1992. Russian Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 178. 1 The Media The Broadcasting Media Television The Russian media have made headlines in recent years because of the involvement of the oligarchs, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, in politics. Then their exiles and arrests were a news item: Berezovsky sought political asylum in the United Kingdom, and Gusinsky, an Israeli citizen, took up residence in Spain but was repeatedly arrested and threatened with extradition.

The second successful program was Dvenadtsatyi etazh (Twelfth Floor), named after the location of the youth department in Gosteleradio and launched in 1986 by Eduard Sagalayev. Sagalayev exploited his Uzbek origin and his role as an outsider in Moscow. Dvenadtsatyi etazh was a youth program, inviting young people to comment on a number of themes. It went on air for the first time in January 1986 as a supplement to Mir i yunost (World and Youth). Dvenadtsatyi etazh distinguished itself by a lively, natural at- mosphere, where satellite links were set up to remote areas of the Soviet Union, to interview young people in their own environment rather than in a hostile studio.

For the first time in years they were allowed access to the previously blank pages of Soviet history: they could read previously censored works of literature, watch films that had been shelved, discover hitherto hidden historical facts in documentaries and historical novels. They were able to hear things about their country that they were aware of but that had never been pronounced in the open. The interest of viewers was first and foremost in the analytical programs about the past and in innovative, live (rather than prerecorded) coverage of current affairs.

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