Bøger af Eliot Borenstein

This book demonstrates the key role The Leftovers played in the development of early twenty-first-century television, while also unpacking its central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of the family and home.

In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia that run through...

Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats.

This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos and places Russian literature in the context of an enriched postmodernism.

Examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comradeship. By analysing a variety of Russian writers who span the ideological spectrum, this title provides an illuminating reading of the construction of masculinity in Soviet culture.