Dressed Up for a Riot

 
 
  • Dressed Up for a Riot

Gevonden bij 1 winkel vanaf € 28,95
(minder betalen?)

Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9780374223151
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
288 pagina's

Prijsvergelijk

1

Omschrijving

A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men’s fashion
In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside—and closely observing—the media and cultural elite of Putin’s Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia’s top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism lite—until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thoroughly changes his mind.

In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become.

Specificaties

Product

Categorie
Politiek (Tip! Bekijk de top 10)
Artikelnummer
1937234
Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9780374223151

Inhoud

Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
288 pagina's

Algemeen

Verschijningsdatum
februari 2018

Gerelateerde producten

Prijsindex

Beste prijs vandaag
28,95
 
Gemiddelde prijs
28,95
 
Goedkoopste
28,95
op 17 juli 2024