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POP CULTURE, TV AND FILM. IN the Late 80S AND 90s. Soviet television & Film. No commercial announcements on TV or radio Carefully filtered and approved programs and information “ High ” culture: ballet, theatre, film, documentaries Stiff, formal concerts with old performers. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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POP CULTURE, TV AND FILM
IN the Late 80S AND 90s
Soviet television & Film
No commercial announcements on TV or radio
Carefully filtered and approved programs and information
“High” culture: ballet, theatre, film, documentaries
Stiff, formal concerts with old performers
The new freedoms of glasnost
Freedom from Socialist Realism
Tendency to shock and scandalize
Raw language (“mat”), scandalous sex scenes
Pop and rock assimilates all kinds of influences from Western music
Film Developments
Influenced by imported cassettes:
Chernukha (“black” film)
Pornukha (porno)
Mokrukha (blood and guts)
Triller (Thriller)
Film: “Chernukha”
Shows the “seamy” side of life: sex, alcoholism, brawls, prostitution
Ironical humour
No happy end
Interdevochka (1989)
Taxi Blues (1990)
Tv comes to life
Perestroika and glasnost on the telly
Vzgliad (look)
Friday evening youth program created on the 1987 decision of Central Committee of the CPSU (first suggested by Aleksandr Yakovlev)
First program on 2 October 1987 on Central Television, later Channel One
26 December 1990 program stopped because it discussed Shevardnadze’s resignation
“The medium is the message”
News and entertainment program that played off the personalities of the presenters: Oleg Vakulovsky, Dmitry Zakharov, Vlad Listyev, Aleksandr Liubimov
Called “The Beatles of Perestroika”
Expressed the desire for change among the young
Did special edition of their program on August 23rd after the Putsch.
January 1995 Listyev became director of ORT (Channel One)
Struggle develops to control advertising revenue
1 March 1995 Listyev murdered entering his apt. building
Vlad Listyev
600 seconds (1987-1993)
Fast-paced sensationalist news program out of Leningrad directed and presented by Aleksandr Nevzorov
Began as a use of tv to criticize bureaucrats, becomes more and more on side of conservatives, against reforms, independence of Baltic republics
Nevzorov makes film “Nashi” in praise of the special forces sent to Lithuania in 1991
Simplemente Maria (1989)
Fascinated Russians dropped everything to watch…
Mexican soaps
A pyramid scheme created by Sergei Mavrodi in 1994
Brilliant tv commercials
MMM and the power of television
Pop music: survivors and newcomers
Estrada: the Queen Alla Pugacheva
Rock: Time Machine, DDT, Aquarium, Liube
Popsa: new “commercial” artists: Filip Kirkorov
1983 song of the the year: A Million Crimson Roses
Mary(1995)
Mal-po-malu (Little by Little 1998)
Alla Pugacheva (1949-)
One-time husband of Alla Pugacheva
Superpop
Edinstvennaya
(“My one and only”)
Filip Kirkorov
Leader: Andrei Makarevich
Marionetki (1992)
Povorot
(The Bend, Red Square concert 1994)
*Mashina vremeni
Above ground:Time Machine*
Group formed in 1989
Nationalist and military thematics and appeal
Extremely popular among a certain demographic
“The Birches” a perfect expression of Putin’s Russia
Kombat (1996)
There beyond the mists
Quit fooling around, America!
The Birches
Lyube