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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference book cover

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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

By Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz Copyright 2015
300 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It... Read more

Introduction: A Clash of Two Russias, a Tale of Two Cities  1. Television and Nationhood: The Broader Context  Part 1  2. Mapping an Uncertain Terrain: An Overview of the Corpus  3. Re-Inventing Russia in Television News Commemorations of the ‘Day of National Unity’: Mediation as Fracture  4. Ethnic Conflict and Television News Coverage of the December 2010 Moscow Riots: Managing the Unexpected  Part 2  5. Re-working Russian Diversity: The ‘Marginal’ Role of Television Fiction  6. Transcending Marginality: Ethnicity, Identity and Religion on Vesti-Buriatiia  Part 3  7. (Un)covering Alterity: Television, the 2012 Presidential Elections and the Ethnic Underside of Russian Political Discourse  8. An Unholy Scandal: Profanity, Abjection and the Production of Russian-ness in the ‘Punk Prayer’ Affair  9. ‘There is War On Our Streets...’: The ‘National Question’ and Migration on State-aligned Television after the 2012 Presidential Elections  Conclusion: Difference in the Balance

Biography

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK

Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK

"There is a good deal of important material here...
Summing Up: Highly Recommended.  Graduate students and researchers."

J. Zimmerman, emerita, University of Pittsburgh, CHOICE

"Today, the uncertain future of Russia both in the international and domestic arena is pushing the Kremlin to intensify its nation-building in the media. Studying attitudes in TV is thus extremely important, especially when it comes to national identity and national representations. This book goes beyond these representations and explains the patterns behind them, and is therefore an essential read for any scholar interested in the Russian media sphere or nationality issues in contemporary Russia."

Veera Laine, Europe-Asia Studies

"The analysis is sophisticated and multi-faceted, addressing verbal and visual representation, selection, and ordering of material contextualized by a particular channel’s identity...The book is a great resource for scholars in Slavic and Media studies, as well as specialists in social sciences interested in how television reflects and shapes debates about attitudes towards issues of ethnicity, race, and nation-building in contemporary Russia."

Elena Prokhorova, College of William & Mary, Slavic and East European Journal

"Many of the conclusions Hutchings and Tolz ... are backed by exhaustive research, detailed data, and an ongoing engagement with relevant theoretical literature."

Stephen M. Norris, Miami University, Slavic Review

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