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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
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- 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)