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Russian culture
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Soviet Russia
Product details
- ISBN 9781841507309
- Weight: 435g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Russia's New Fin de Siècle brings together a range of texts on contemporary Russian culture – literary, cinematic and popular – as artists and writers try to situate themselves within the traditional frameworks of past and present, East and West, but also challenge established markers of identity. Investigating Russian culture at the turn of the 21st century, scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States explore aspects of culture with regards to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture? This question comes at a time when Russia is concerned with integrating itself into European arts and culture while enhancing its uniqueness through references to its Soviet past. Thus, contributions investigate the phenomenon of post-Soviet culture and try to define the relationship of contemporary art to the past.
Birgit Beumers is professor of film studies at Aberystwyth University. Her publications include Directory of World Cinema: Russia, A History of Russian Cinema, and, with Mark Lipovetsky, Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama. She is also the editor of Intellect's journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema.
