Title: Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture (Paperback or Softback)
Publisher: Transcript Publishing 1/7/2025
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 383766077X
ISBN 13: 9783837660777
Binding: Paperback or Softback
Condition: New
Weight: 1.12 pounds
Book Type: Book

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Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian popular cultures. The contributors analyze the strategies of dramatization, emotionalization, and personalization of the past in mainstream films, TV series, novels, comics, computer games, and music videos. The case studies discuss how "entertaining" media formats process dramatic events and ruptures such as the Second World War, the Gulag, the Chernobyl disaster or the downfall of the Soviet Union. The volume provides new insights into Eastern European cultures in times of political conflicts and digital revolution.

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Matthias Schwartz is head of the program area World Literature at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany. His research interests include the cultural history of Russian and Soviet space flight, adventure literature, science-fiction and science popularisation, Eastern European youth cultures, memory cultures, and contemporary literatures in a globalized world.<br /><br />Nina Weller is a postdoctoral researcher. 2018-2022 she has been the head of the BMBF-Projekt �The Past of the Present� at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary literature, popular culture, memory studies and representations of history in Eastern European cultures (Belarusia, Russian, Ukrainian).

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