LEADER 04742nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910781206803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6345-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463457 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039573 035 $a(OCoLC)729687198 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468003 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000529801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11318455 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000529801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10561492 035 $a(PQKB)10897451 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28723 035 $a(DE-B1597)503243 035 $a(OCoLC)1059275743 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463457 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138124 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138124 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039573 100 $a20070712d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOverkill$b[electronic resource] $esex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture /$fEliot Borenstein 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aCulture and society after socialism 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7403-5 311 $a0-8014-4583-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAbout that : sex and its metaphors -- Stripping the nation bare : pornography as politics -- Pimping the motherland : Russia bought and sold -- To be continued : death and the art of serial storytelling -- Women who run with the wolves -- Men of action : heroic melodrama and the passion of Mad Dog -- Overkill : bespredel and gratuitous violence -- Conclusion : someone like Putin. 330 $aPerestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture came to reflect the anxiety and despair felt by more and more Russians. Free from censorship for the first time in Russia's history, the popular culture industry (publishing, film, and television) began to disseminate works that featured increasingly explicit images and descriptions of sex and violence.In Overkill, Eliot Borenstein explores this lurid and often-disturbing cultural landscape in close, imaginative readings of such works as You're Just a Slut, My Dear! (Ty prosto shliukha, dorogaia!), a novel about sexual slavery and illegal organ harvesting; the Nympho trilogy of books featuring a Chechen-fighting sex addict; and the Mad Dog and Antikiller series of books and films recounting, respectively, the exploits of the Russian Rambo and an assassin killing in the cause of justice. Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats. At the same time, they built a notion of nationalism or heroism that could be maintained even under the most miserable of social conditions, when consumers felt most powerless.For Borenstein, the myriad depictions of deviance in pornographic and also crime fiction, with their patently excessive and appalling details of social and moral decay, represented the popular culture industry's response to the otherwise unimaginable scale of Russia's national collapse. "The full sense of collapse," he writes, "required a panoptic view that only the media and culture industry were eager to provide, amalgamating national collapse into one master narrative that would then be readily available to most individuals as a framework for understanding their own suffering and their own fears." 410 0$aCulture and society after socialism. 606 $aPopular culture$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aSex in popular culture$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aViolence in popular culture$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aSex in mass media 606 $aViolence in mass media 606 $aPopular literature$zRussia (Federation)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPost-communism$xSocial aspects$zRussia (Federation) 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aSex in popular culture 615 0$aViolence in popular culture 615 0$aSex in mass media. 615 0$aViolence in mass media. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPost-communism$xSocial aspects 676 $a306.70947/090511 700 $aBorenstein$b Eliot$f1966-$01476798 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781206803321 996 $aOverkill$93691581 997 $aUNINA