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The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals

New York, NY: Routledge (2011), xv, 245 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 227-240, index

Series: Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

ISBN 9780415674874 (pbk); 9780203886625 (online)

Signature commbox: 437:10-General 2011

Introduction, 1
I. MEDIA, POLITICS AND STATE
1 Free to get rich and fool around / Ivan Zassoursky, 29
2 Where did it all go wrong: Russian television in the Putin era / John A. Dunn, 42
3 Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia / Samuel A. Greene, 56
4 The end of independent television: elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape / Tina Burrett, 71
II. THE LANGUAGE OF THE MEDIA
5 Putin and the tradition of the interview in Russian discourse / Anna Maslennikova, 89
6 What's in a foreign word: negotiating linguistic culture on Russian radio programmes about language / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, 105
III. THE MEDIA AND MEMORY
7 The conundrum of memory: young people and their recollections of Soviet television / Ellen Mickiewicz, 125
8 Commemorating the past, performing the present: television coverage of WWII victory celebrations and the (de)construction of Russian nationhood / Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova, 137
IV. CULTURE, STATE AND EMPIRE IN TELEVISION SERIALS
9 The culture of serialization, or the serialization of culture / Birgit Beumers, 159
10 The state face: the empire's televisual imagination / Nancy Condee, 178
V. NEW MEDIA, CENSORSHIP AND IDENTITY
11 New media, new Russians, new abroad: towards a non-nationalist paradigm / Robert Saunders, 191
12 Russia's internet media policies: open space and ideological closure / Vlad Strukov, 208