Russian Popular Culture

Catalog description

This course presents popular culture as a historical text reflecting national consciousness and memory of the people, and containing answers to nation’s behavior, their perceptions of and reactions to the world around them. Course analyses mechanisms of political propaganda and modern marketing, as well as the science behind what makes something go viral. It evaluates relationship between mass, popular and high cultures on the examples of pre-Soviet, Soviet and modern era literature, cinema, and entertainment arts with the purpose of studying people’s role as both creators and recipients of popular culture.