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Author Rosenholm, Arja

Title Russian Mass Media and Changing Values
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (250 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Mapping the media landscape; 1 Contemporary structure of the Russian media industry; 2 Changing media use in Russia; 3 A new generation of journalists; Part 2 Biopolitics of the media; 4 'We must all give birth: That's an order': The Russian mass media commenting on V.V. Putin's address; 5 Portrayal of health policy in Russian newspapers; 6 Eastern cowboys: Masculine selves and coping with stressful life in the Russian edition of Men's Health magazine
7 In search of a 'new (wo)man': Gender and sexuality in contemporary Russian self-help literaturePart 3 Media as the arbiters of style; 8 'Family -- that's an opera': Creativity and family representations in Russian women's magazine Krest'ianka; 9 Modern Russian entertainment TV: 'Live well now -- ask me how!'; 10 Russian glamour and its representations in post-Soviet mass media; 11 Between a good home and a good city: The privatisation of residential life in Russian lifestyle journalism; Index
Summary This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular culture. Russian social and cultural life today is strongly individualised and consumers are offered innumerable alternatives; but at the same time options are limited by the new technologies of control which are a key feature of Russian capitalism. Based on extensive original research by scholars in both Russia itself and in Finland, the book discusses new developments in the media industry and assesses a wide range of social and cultural changes, many o
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Nordenstreng, Kaarle
Trubina, Elena
ISBN 9780203846643
0203846648