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Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture

Author
Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-
Title
Overkill : sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture / Eliot Borenstein.
Format
Book
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Description
xv, 265 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.
URL
<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028831.html
Portion of title
Sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
Series
Culture and society after socialism
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
Contents
  • About 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.
Kinsey subjects
Popular culture studies. Sex and society--Russia. Violence. Mass media. Aggressive sex behavior. Communism--21st century--Russia
ISBN
9780801445835 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801445833 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474033 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474035 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
184.7 B76 o8 2008
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute