Consuming Russia

Abstract

CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of illustrations Part I: Introduction Rereading Russia Adele Marie Barker, University of Arizona The culture farce: Theorizing the popular in the new Russia Adele Marie Barker, University of Arizona Part II: Popular culture Public Offerings: MMM and the Marketing of Melodrama Eliot Borenstein, New York University Gagarin and the Rave Kids: Transforming Power, Ideology and Aesthetics in Post-Soviet Night Life Alexei Yurchak, University of California, Berkeley Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Holy Rus and its Alternatives in Russian Rock Music Julia P. Friedman and Adam Weiner, Wellesley College Popular Children's Culture in Post-Perestroika Russia: Songs of Innocence and Experience Revisited Elizabeth Kristofovich Zelensky, Georgetown University Markets, Mirrors, and Mayhem: Aleksandra Marinina and the Rise of the New Russian Detektiv Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College In Search of an Audience: The New Russian Cinema of Reconciliation Susan Larsen, University of California, San Diego There are no Rules on Planet Russia: Post-Soviet Spectator Sport Robert Edelman, University of California, San Diego Saying Lenin and Meaning Party: Subversion and Laughter in Soviet and Post-Soviet Society Anna Krylova Going to the Dogs: Pet Life in the New Russia Adele Marie Barker, University of Arizona Part III: Sexualities Publicly Queer: Representations of Queer Subjects and Subjectivities in the Absence of Identity Laurie Essig Queer Performance: Male Ballet Tim Scholl, Oberlin College Pornography in Russia Paul W. Goldschmidt, University of Wisconsin - Platteville Part IV: Society and social artefacts Body Graphics: Tattooing the Fall of Communism Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh Communism as Kitsch: Soviet Symbols in Post-Soviet Society Theresa Sabonis-Chafee From the Toilet to the Museum: Memory and Metamorphosis of Soviet Trash Svetlana Boym, Harvard University Paranoid Graffiti at Execution Wall: Nationalist Interpretation of Russia's Travail John Bushnell, Northwestern University Christianity, anti-Semitism, Nationalism: Russian Orthodoxy in a Reborn Orthodox Russia Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, University of Wisconsin at Madison Suspending Disbelief: Cults and Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Russia Eliot Borenstein, New York University