Author : Christine Elaine Evans
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300208962
Between Truth and Time by Christine Elaine Evans Pdf
In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television’s most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and the post-Soviet media system.