pop culture, tv and film in the late 80s and 90s

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