Glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russia
Subtitle: shocking chic
By: edited by Helena Goscilo and Vlad Strukov.
Contributors: Goscilo, Helena, 1945-; Strukov, Vlad, 1973-
Series: Basees/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415587655; 9780203845035
Subjects: Popular culture -- Russia (Federation); Popular culture -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow; Glamour -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation); Glamour -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow; Celebrities -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography; Celebrities -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography; Social change -- Russia (Federation); Social change -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow; Moscow (Russia) -- Social life and customs; Russia (Federation) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1; title: The art of politics, and the politics of art; title: The ultimate celebrity : VVP as VIP objet d'art / Helena Goscilo; title: The mistress of Moscow : a case of corporate celebrity / Michelle Kuhn; title: pt. 2. Prosaic glamour; title: Akunin's secret and Fandorin's luck : postmodern celebrity in post-Soviet Russia / Brian James Baer and Nadezhda Korchagina; title: Glamour à la Oksana Robski / Tatiana Mikhailova; title: pt. 3. Mediating glamour : film, Estrada, and new media stars; title: Fatherland, family, and faith : the power of Nikita Mikhalkov's celebrity / Stephen M. Norris; title: "Much ado and nothing" : Mikhail Zadornov as a celebrity of Russian comedy / Oxana Poberejnaia; title: Russian Internet stars : gizmos, geeks, and glory / Vlad Strukov; title: pt. 4. Gendered sounds and screams of stardom; title: Feminism à la Russe? : Pugacheva-Orbakaite's celebrity cnstruction through family bonds / Olga Partan; title: Elevating Verka Serdiuchka : a star-study in excess performativity / Jeremy Morris; title: pt. 5. Moscow snobbery : from "high" art to haute cuisine; title: Zurab Tsereteli's exegi monumentum, Luzhkov's largesse, and the collateral rewards of animosity / Helena Goscilo; title: Hot prospekts : dining in the new Moscow / Darra Goldstein.