Goscilo / Strukov Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia

Shocking Chic
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-136-92434-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

The book demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in Russia coincides with the dizzying pace of social change and economic transformation, the latter enabling an unprecedented fascination with glamour and its requisite extravagance; how in the 1990s and 2000s, celebrities - such as film or television stars - moved away from their home medium to become celebrities straddling various media; and how celebrity is a symbol manipulated by the dominant culture and embraced by the masses. It examines the primacy of the visual in celebrity construction and its dominance over the verbal, alongside the interdisciplinary, cross-media, post-Soviet landscape of today’s fame culture.

Taking into account both general tendencies and individual celebrities, including pop-diva Alla Pugacheva and ex-President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the book analyses the internal dynamics of the institutions involved in the production, marketing, and maintenance of celebrities, as well as the larger cultural context and the imperatives that drive Russian society’s romance with glamour and celebrity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goscilo, Helena

Strukov, Vlad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part I The Art of Politics, and the Politics of Art 1. The Ultimate Celebrity: VVP as VIP Objet d’Art - Helena Goscilo 2. The Mistress of Moscow: a Case of Corporate Celebrity - Michelle Kuhn Part II Prosaic Glamour 3. Akunin’s Secret and Fandorin’s Luck: Postmodern Celebrity in Post-Soviet Russia - Brian James Baer and Nadezhda Korchagina 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 - Stephen M. Norris 6. "Much Ado and Nothing:" Mikhail Zadornov as a Celebrity of Russian Comedy - Oxana Poberejnaia 7. Russian Internet Stars: Gizmos, Geeks, and Glory - Vlad Strukov Part IV Gendered Sounds and Screams of Stardom 8. Feminism à la Russe? Pugacheva-Orbakaite’s Celebrity Construction through Family Bonds - Olga Partan 9. Elevating Verka Serdiuchka: A Star-Study in Excess Performativity - Jeremy Morris 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 - Helena Goscilo 11. Hot Prospekts: Dining in the New Moscow - Darra Goldstein

Über Autor(innen)

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.