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Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia - Shocking Chic (Hardcover)
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Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia - Shocking Chic (Hardcover)
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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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.
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