Muppets in Moscow the unexpected crazy true story of making Sesame Street in Russia

Between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow, a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented hit in a post-communist era: Ulitsa Sezam, the Russian co-production of Sesame Street. She observes h...

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Main Author: Lance Rogoff, Natasha (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]
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Summary: Between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow, a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented hit in a post-communist era: Ulitsa Sezam, the Russian co-production of Sesame Street. She observes how, despite sharing common goals, cultural clashes colored nearly every aspect of the production. The result is an invaluable perspective on Russia's diverse people, their culture, and their complicated relationship with the West. --
Physical Description: xix, 267 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781538161289
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Author Notes: Natasha Lance Rogoff is an award-winning television producer and journalist whose writings have appeared in mainstream international newspapers and magazines that include The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out London, and Stadt Zeitung in Germany. She currently blogs about Russia and children's television on Huffington Post and Medium. Rogoff served as Executive Producer of Sesame Street International from 1992-1997. She also produced television news and documentaries in Soviet Russia for CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS Frontline for two decades. Rogoff's 1985 film, Rock Around the Kremlin, aired on ABC's 20/20. In 1993, Rogoff's award-winning documentary, Russia for Sale: The Rough Road to Capitalism, aired nationally on PBS TV and received wide praise. In 2011, Rogoff launched an ed-tech startup, Ingredients for Education, which features KickinNutrition.TV, a children's health education video platform. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.