Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television

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Yale University Press, 23 août 2016 - 360 pages
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.
 

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Stagnation and Experimentation in the Russian Era of Television
1
Not a Mirror but a Magnifying Glass Soviet Television Enthusiasm
21
Programmnaia Politika Audience Research and the Creation of the Channel 1 Schedule
47
From Café to Contest New Years Variety Shows and the Soviet Festive System
82
Time and the Problem of Boredom
115
Spiritual Coauthorship Seventeen Moments of Spring and the Soviet TV Miniseries
150
KVN Is an Honest Game Game Shows and the Problem of Authority
183
A Dress Rehearsal for Life Artloto and What? Where? When?
216
The Origins of Central Televisions Perestroika
235
Notes
255
Bibliography
303
Index
319
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Christine E. Evans is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She lives in Milwaukee, WI.

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