Irina Souch is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Parents and children. Us and them. Families in need of repair. Irina Souch analyzes these societal constructions (and more) through case studies of recent Russian popular films and television serials. By exploring the ways that post-Soviet culture has wrestled with individual, group, and familial identities, Souch persuasively demonstrates how contemporary Russianness is constructed through narratives that interpret the past while also reworking popular cultural tropes. Souch illustrates how television shows and films have played important role in the creation of new Russian myths of brotherhood, patriarchal authority, enemies, and family life.

• List of FiguresNote on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film: An IntroductionOne: From paternal authority to brotherhood: Soviet identity myths in transitionTwo: Us versus them: fantasies of otherness in the construction of post-Soviet identityThree: Double thinking: negotiating adjustment to societal changeFour: The waning family: gender and generations in post-Soviet societyFive: Towards new forms of sociality: laughter as a socially productive force AfterwordNotesReferencesIndex

Irina Souch is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Parents and children. Us and them. Families in need of repair. Irina Souch analyzes these societal constructions (and more) through case studies of recent Russian popular films and television serials. By exploring the ways that post-Soviet culture has wrestled with individual, group, and familial identities, Souch persuasively demonstrates how contemporary Russianness is constructed through narratives that interpret the past while also reworking popular cultural tropes. Souch illustrates how television shows and films have played important role in the creation of new Russian myths of brotherhood, patriarchal authority, enemies, and family life.

• List of FiguresNote on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film: An IntroductionOne: From paternal authority to brotherhood: Soviet identity myths in transitionTwo: Us versus them: fantasies of otherness in the construction of post-Soviet identityThree: Double thinking: negotiating adjustment to societal changeFour: The waning family: gender and generations in post-Soviet societyFive: Towards new forms of sociality: laughter as a socially productive force AfterwordNotesReferencesIndex

Irina Souch is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Parents and children. Us and them. Families in need of repair. Irina Souch analyzes these societal constructions (and more) through case studies of recent Russian popular films and television serials. By exploring the ways that post-Soviet culture has wrestled with individual, group, and familial identities, Souch persuasively demonstrates how contemporary Russianness is constructed through narratives that interpret the past while also reworking popular cultural tropes. Souch illustrates how television shows and films have played important role in the creation of new Russian myths of brotherhood, patriarchal authority, enemies, and family life.

• List of FiguresNote on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film: An IntroductionOne: From paternal authority to brotherhood: Soviet identity myths in transitionTwo: Us versus them: fantasies of otherness in the construction of post-Soviet identityThree: Double thinking: negotiating adjustment to societal changeFour: The waning family: gender and generations in post-Soviet societyFive: Towards new forms of sociality: laughter as a socially productive force AfterwordNotesReferencesIndex