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POP CULTURE, TV AND FILM

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.

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POP CULTURE, TV AND FILM

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  1. POP CULTURE, TV AND FILM IN the Late 80S AND 90s

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Film Developments • Influenced by imported cassettes: • Chernukha (“black” film) • Pornukha (porno) • Mokrukha (blood and guts) • Triller (Thriller)

  5. Film: “Chernukha” • Shows the “seamy” side of life: sex, alcoholism, brawls, prostitution • Ironical humour • No happy end • Interdevochka (1989) • Taxi Blues (1990)

  6. Tv comes to life Perestroika and glasnost on the telly

  7. 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

  8. “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.

  9. VladListyev January 1995 Listyev became director of ORT (Channel One) Struggle develops to control advertising revenue 1 March 1995 Listyev murdered entering his apt. building

  10. 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

  11. Mexican soaps Simplemente Maria (1989) Fascinated Russians dropped everything to watch…

  12. MMM and the power of television A pyramid scheme created by Sergei Mavrodi in 1994 Brilliant tv commercials

  13. Pop music: survivors and newcomers • Estrada: the Queen Alla Pugacheva • Rock: Time Machine, DDT, Aquarium, Liube • Popsa: new “commercial” artists: Filip Kirkorov

  14. AllaPugacheva (1949-) 1983 song of the the year: A Million Crimson Roses Mary(1995) Mal-po-malu (Little by Little 1998)

  15. FilipKirkorov One-time husband of Alla Pugacheva Superpop Edinstvennaya (“My one and only”)

  16. Above ground:Time Machine* Leader: Andrei Makarevich Marionetki (1992) Povorot (The Bend, Red Square concert 1994) *Mashinavremeni

  17. Lyube Kombat (1996) There beyond the mists Quit fooling around, America! The Birches • 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

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