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Putin as celebrity and cultural icon / edited by Helena Goscilo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 80.
- BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 80
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-.
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952---Public opinion.
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952---In literature.
- Presidents--Russia (Federation).
- Presidents.
- Russians--Russia (Federation)--Attitudes.
- Russians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Though in recent months Putin's popularity has frayed at the edges, the dearth of comparably powerful and experienced political leaders leaves no doubt that he will continue to be a key political figure. During his tenure as Russia's President and subsequently as Prime Minister, Putin transcended politics, to become the country's major cultural icon. This book examines the nature of his iconic status. It explores his public persona as glamorous hero, endowed with vision, wisdom, moral and physical strength-the man uniquely capable of restoring Russia's reputation as a global power. In analy
- Contents:
- Russia's ultimate celebrity : VVP as VIP objet d'art / Helena Goscilo
- A personality cult for the postmodern age : reading Vladimir Putin's public persona / Julie A. Cassiday and Emily D. Johnson
- Putin as the father of the nation : his family and other animals / Tatiana Mikhailova
- Putin's language / Michael Gorham
- The discourse of a spectacle at the end of the presidential term / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
- Putin in Russian fiction / Andrei Rogatchevski
- Post-Soviet self-fashioning and the politics of representation / Brian James Baer
- Putin's performance of masculinity: the hero and macho sex-object / Helena Goscilo.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-64313-8
- 0-203-10804-3
- 1-136-26429-9
- 9780203108048
- OCLC:
- 812914908
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