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Sincerity After Communism: A Cultural History

Sincerity After Communism: A Cultural History

Rutten, Ellen

Hardcover

Series: Eurasia Past and Present

General World HistoryRussian HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0300213980
ISBN13: 9780300213980
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Jan 10 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
A compelling study of new sincerity as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows

The global cultural practice of a new sincerity in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily in the wake of the Soviet collapse. Cultural historian Ellen Rutten traces the rise and proliferation of a new rhetoric of sincere social expression characterized by complex blends of unabashed honesty, playfulness, and irony. Insightful and thought provoking, Rutten's masterful study of a sweeping cultural trend with roots in late Soviet Russia addresses postsocialist, postmodern, and postdigital questions of selfhood. The author explores how and why a uniquely Russian artistic and social philosophy was shaped by cultural memory, commodification, and mediatization, and how, under Putin, new sincerity talk merges with transnational pleas to revive sincerity. This essential study stands squarely at the intersection of the history of emotions, media studies, and post-Soviet studies to shed light on a new cultural reality--one that is profoundly affecting creative thought, artistic expression, and lifestyle virtually everywhere.

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