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Glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russia : shocking chic / edited by Helena Goscilo and Vlad Strukov.
Van Pelt Library DK510.32 .G55 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
- Basees/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Russia (Federation).
- Popular culture.
- Social change.
- Celebrities.
- Glamour.
- Social aspects.
- Russia (Federation).
- Popular culture--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Glamour--Social aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Glamour--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Celebrities--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Celebrities--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--Biography.
- Social change--Russia (Federation).
- Social change--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Moscow (Russia)--Social life and customs.
- Moscow (Russia).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- pt. 1
- The art of politics, and the politics of art
- The ultimate celebrity : VVP as VIP objet d'art / Helena Goscilo
- The mistress of Moscow : a case of corporate celebrity / Michelle Kuhn
- pt. 2. Prosaic glamour
- Akunin's secret and Fandorin's luck : postmodern celebrity in post-Soviet Russia / Brian James Baer and Nadezhda Korchagina
- Glamour à la Oksana Robski / Tatiana Mikhailova
- pt. 3. Mediating glamour : film, Estrada, and new media stars
- Fatherland, family, and faith : the power of Nikita Mikhalkov's celebrity / Stephen M. Norris
- "Much ado and nothing" : Mikhail Zadornov as a celebrity of Russian comedy / Oxana Poberejnaia
- Russian Internet stars : gizmos, geeks, and glory / Vlad Strukov
- pt. 4. Gendered sounds and screams of stardom
- Feminism à la Russe? : Pugacheva-Orbakaite's celebrity cnstruction through family bonds / Olga Partan
- Elevating Verka Serdiuchka : a star-study in excess performativity / Jeremy Morris
- pt. 5. Moscow snobbery : from "high" art to haute cuisine
- Zurab Tsereteli's exegi monumentum, Luzhkov's largesse, and the collateral rewards of animosity / Helena Goscilo
- Hot prospekts : dining in the new Moscow / Darra Goldstein.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415587655
- 0415587654
- 9780203845035
- 020384503X
- OCLC:
- 624413018
- Publisher Number:
- 99939680391
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