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Cultural Clones
Author: Anna Dymkovets
Translator: Deborah Hoffman
Russian Life: May/June 2009
Department: Features
Page: 52 ( 5) pages
Summary: Be it in films, literature, television, music or art, Russia has a long tradition of cloning western (and eastern) cultural icons and making them its own. We survey several of the more interesting and recent instances, from Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh, to The Wheel of Fortune and Big Brother.
This article appeared in the May/June 2009 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
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