Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic

ISBN-13: 9780415625432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str.

Helena Goscilo; Vlad Strukov

Opis

An exploration of glamour & celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, this study ranges across media forms, disciplinary boundaries & modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of 'celebrification' in Russia coincides with social change & economic transformation.

Spis treści

Part I The Art of Politics, and the Politics of Art  1. The Ultimate Celebrity: VVP as VIP Objet d’Art  2. The Mistress of Moscow: a Case of Corporate Celebrity  Part II Prosaic Glamour  3. Akunin’s Secret and Fandorin’s Luck: Postmodern Celebrity in Post-Soviet Russia  4. Glamour à la Oksana Robski - Tatiana Mikhailova  Part III Mediating Glamour: Film, Estrada, and New Media Stars  5. Fatherland, Family, and Faith: The Power of Nikita Mikhalkov’s Celebrity  6. "Much Ado and Nothing:" Mikhail Zadornov as a Celebrity of Russian Comedy  7. Russian Internet Stars: Gizmos, Geeks, and Glory  Part IV Gendered Sounds and Screams of Stardom  8. Feminism à la Russe? Pugacheva-Orbakaite’s Celebrity Construction through Family Bonds  9. Elevating Verka Serdiuchka: A Star-Study in Excess Performativity Part V Moscow Snobbery: From ‘High’ Art to Haute Cuisine  10. Zurab Tsereteli’s Exegi Monumentum, Luzhkov’s Largesse, and the Collateral Rewards of Animosity  11. Hot Prospekts: Dining in the New Moscow

O autorze

Helena Goscilo is Professor and Chair of Slavic at the Ohio State University, USA.  Her recent publications include (as co-editor) Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia and Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film. 

Vlad Strukov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian, and the Centre for World Cinemas, at the University of Leeds, UK.  He is the founding editor of Digital Icons: Studies of Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media.