Television and Culture in Putin's Russia : Remote control (Hardcover)

Introduction.  Chapter 1. ‘(Dis)informing Russia: Media Space and Discourse Conflict in Post-Soviet Russian Television News’.  Chapter 2. ‘St Petersburg 300: Television and the Invention of a Post-Soviet Russian (Media) Tradition’.  Chapter 3. ‘Russia's 9/11: Performativity and Discursive Instability in Television Coverage of the Beslan Atrocity’.  Chapter 4. ‘Promiscuous Words: The Post-Soviet Tok-shou as Cultural Mediator and Hegemonic Pressure Point’.  Chapter 5. ‘Unfulfilled Orders: Failed Hegemony in Russia’s (Pseudo) Military Drama Serials’.  Chapter 6. ‘Laughter at the Threshold: My Fair Nanny, Television Sitcoms and the Post-Soviet Struggle Over Taste’.  Chapter 7. ‘(Mis)appropriating the Western Game Show: Pole Chudes [The Field of Miracles] and the Double-edged Myth of the Narod’.  Chapter 8. ‘Russian Regional Television: At the Crossroads of the Global, the National and the Local’.  Chapter 9. ‘Television through the Lens of the Post-Soviet Viewer’.  Conclusion.  Bibliography.