Russian Television Today: Primetime Drama and Comedy (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) by David MacFadyen
Routledge | August 30, 2007 | English | ISBN: 0415424623 | 254 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to express a new understanding of what it means to be Russian, answering key questions of national identity for modern Russians in dealing with their recent history: ‘What really happened to us?’ and, accordingly, ‘Why?’