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Eliot Borenstein
"Contemporary Russian culture constantly revisits the Soviet collapse, through time travel, alternate history, theme parks, and political movements that insist that the USSR still exists"-
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In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious…
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This book demonstrates the key role The Leftovers played in the development of early twenty-first-century television, while also unpacking its central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of…
Examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comradeship. By analysing a variety of Russian writers who span the ideological…
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Perestroika 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…
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"With the rise of new creators who emphasized their own individual voices while also focusing on their characters' inner lives, Marvel Comics in the 1970s laid the groundwork for the…
As Borenstein shows in his readings of a range of popular culture texts, the imaginary identities Russians have been trying on since the Soviet collapse reflect an aggressive, often outward-facing…
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Professor Eliot Borenstein
Both more and less than a band, Pussy Riot is continually misunderstood by the Western media. This book sets the record straight.
After their scandalous performance of an anti-Putin protest…
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Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the…
Mark Lipovetsky,Eliot Borenstein
This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as…
Professor Eliot Borenstein (New York University, USA)
The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an…
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