Eliot Borenstein

Meanwhile, in Russia... (eBook, ePUB)

Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an endless reserve of humorous content. But how did this powerful cyber community grow out of the repressive media environment of the Soviet Union? What does this viral content reveal about the country, its politics and its culture? And why are the memes and videos of today's Russia so popular, spreading so rapidly across the globe?

Award-winning author Eliot Borenstein explores the explosive online movement and unpicks, for the first time, the role of mimetic content and digital activism in modern Russian history up to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350181540
• Artikelnr.: 63409447

Autorenporträt

Eliot Borenstein is Professor and Chair of Russian & Slavic Studies, Interim Chair of East Asian Studies, Collegiate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network at New York University, USA. Before coming to NYU, Borenstein directed the Fulbright Program for the Russian Federation and taught at the University of Virginia, USA. His first book, Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1919, won the AATSEEL award for best work in literary scholarship in 2000. In 2007, he published Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture, which received the AWSS award for best book in Slavic Gender Studies in 2008.

A 2009 Guggenheim recipient, Borenstein wrote Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism (2019), which received the 2020 AATSEEL Book Prize and the 2020 Wayne S. Vucinic Book Prize. His other books include Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power (Bloomsbury, 2020), and Meanwhile, in Russia...: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Resources Introduction.
Ivan The Terrible Kills Everybody Chapter 1. Getting Memes Wrong Chapter 2.
The Soviet Memetic Landscape Chapter 3. Looking Backward: A Meme's Eye View
of Russian History and Culture Chapter 4. Folk Heroes of the Runet Chapter
5. MemeStyles of the Rich and Famous Chapter 6. The Whole World Is Watching
Chapter 7. Dance Dance Revolution Chapter 8. Pictures at an Exhibition
Chapter 9. Going Viral: The Memes of COVID-19 Conclusion. The Quick and the
Dank Index