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Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism
The Past as Future
Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies
This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation. To understand the complicated situation that has arisen with respect to these issues in post-Soviet space is impossible without collaboration between political...
Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
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The Post-Soviet Russian Media
Conflicting Signals
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin...
Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
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Television and Culture in Putin's Russia
Remote control
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style...
Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001
Screening the Word
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in Russian cinema, especially during the Soviet period when the cinema was accorded a vital role in imposing the authority of...
Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
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Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age
The Word as Image
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet...
Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge