Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-240) and index.

(Dis)informing Russia : media space and discourse conflict in post-Soviet Russian television news -- St. Petersburg 300 : television and the invention of a post-Soviet Russian (media) tradition -- Russia's 9/11 : performativity and discursive instability in television coverage of the Beslan atrocity -- Promiscuous words : the post-Soviet Tok-shou as cultural mediator and hegemonic pressure point -- Unfilled orders : failed hegemony in Russia's (pseudo) military drama serials -- Laughter at the threshold : My Fair Nanny, television sitcoms and the post-Soviet struggle over taste -- (Mis)appropriating the western game show : Pole Chudes (The Field of Miracles) and the double-edged myth of the Narod -- Russian regional television : at the crossroads of the global, the national and the local -- Television through the lens of the post-Soviet viewer.