Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia Shocking Chic
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Biografisk notat
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.<p><strong>'A lively, sweeping overview of celebrity in the past decade in Russia, the volume includes not only consistent critical insight into the symbols and signifiers of excess and lack in mass culture but also a number of entertaining visuals. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.'</strong><em> - A. J. DeBlasio, CHOICE (August 2011)</em></p><p><strong>â<i>Celebrity and Glamour</i> is remarkably coherent due to its authorsâ collective reliance on Chris Rojekâs theorizing and classification of celebrities as well as their familiarity with each otherâs essays.â</strong> <em>- Larissa Rudova, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema</em></p><p><em>âCelebrity and Glamour</em> is a valuable academic study of the new ideology of glamour that celebrates the triumph of capitalism in modern Russia. Written in a lively and engaging style, this volume could also provide an enjoyable reading experience for the interested non-academic reader. For those who teach courses on post-Soviet Russian culture, this book is a blessing and a long-awaited sequel to <i>Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev</i>, edited by Adele Baker.' <i>- Larissa Rudova, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema</i></p><p><strong>'In Russian Studies, glamour is the new black. This phenomenon, so central a feature of Putinâs reign, has begun to attract scholarly interest both in Russia itself and in the West. But what exactly is the purpose of glamour in Russia? This question lies at the heart of this, the first book-length study of Russian glamour and its related concept, celebrity. As such, it is an especially welcome addition to the growing literature on twenty-fi rst-century Russia. [...] the avowed aim of this volume is to lay the foundations for future research into what Goscilo herself describes as âthe two most important cultural signifiers of Putinâs eraâ (p. 22). There can be no doubt that this excellent volume succeeds admirably in this aim.'</strong> â <em>Graham H. Roberts, UniversitĂŠ Paris Ouest Nanterre La DĂŠfense, published in Slavonica Vol. 18 No. 1, April, 2012, pp. 75 â 76</em></p>
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 âcelebrificationâ 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 todayâs 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 societyâs romance with glamour and celebrity.
Part I The Art of Politics, and the Politics of Art 1. The Ultimate Celebrity: VVP as VIP Objet dâArt 2. The Mistress of Moscow: a Case of Corporate Celebrity Part II Prosaic Glamour 3. Akuninâs Secret and Fandorinâs Luck: Postmodern Celebrity in Post-Soviet Russia 4. Glamour Ă la Oksana Robski - Tatiana Mikhailova Part III Mediating Glamour: Film, Estrada, and New Media Stars 5. Fatherland, Family, and Faith: The Power of Nikita Mikhalkovâs 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 Ă la Russe? Pugacheva-Orbakaiteâs Celebrity Construction through Family Bonds 9. Elevating Verka Serdiuchka: A Star-Study in Excess Performativity Part V Moscow Snobbery: From âHighâ Art to Haute Cuisine 10. Zurab Tsereteliâs Exegi Monumentum, Luzhkovâs Largesse, and the Collateral Rewards of Animosity 11. Hot Prospekts: Dining in the New Moscow