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Starlight and Stargazers : Slavic Screen Celebrities / ed. by Helena Goscilo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and Media StudiesPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)Content type:
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  • 9798887195001
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Stardust, Ephemera, and Surrogates for Divinities -- CHAPTER 1 Eugeniusz Bodo: The Star Who Stole the Show -- CHAPTER 2 The Bondarchuk Dynasty: Two Generations of Imperial(ist) State-Sponsored Celebrities -- CHAPTER 3 Aňa Geislerová: An Evolved Interwar Celebrity for the Post-Totalitarian Era -- CHAPTER 4 Straddling Multiple Spheres: Liudmila Gurchenko -- CHAPTER 5 Agnieszka Holland’s Starburst Career: From Persona Non Grata to International Celebrity on Multiple Fronts -- CHAPTER 6 Krystyna Janda: My Way -- CHAPTER 7 Renata Litvinova’s (Anti-)Imperial Sublime -- CHAPTER 8 Small-Scale Hedonism as Rebellion: Jiří Menzel’s Irresistible Union of Sex and Laughter -- CHAPTER 9 Pretty and Macho: The Eroticized Physicality of Daniel Olbrychski -- CHAPTER 10 Liubov′ Orlova: Dialectic of Knowledge and Mystery -- CHAPTER 11 Volodymyr Zelensky: From Actor to Captain Ukraine -- Index
Summary: Celebrification has thrived for centuries in literature, theater, music, and other cultural spheres, as vividly illustrated by Byron, Sarah Bernhardt, and Paganini. It especially effloresced in cinema after the symbolically named Lumière brothers pioneered movies as light-projected “moving life” to be contemplated and shared in the intimate darkness of theaters. Actors and actresses such as Valentino and Garbo acquired the status of divine beings whose life on and offscreen stimulated fascination and a passionate devotion most frequently invested in religious figures. The recent explosion in social media has only amplified immeasurably the scale and intensity of that adulation. Yearning for the seemingly transcendent, fans as mere mortals seek contact with celebrities as objects of worship that, like nocturnal stars, are simultaneously remote yet accessible. Starlight and Stargazers examines the multifaceted nature and specific manifestations of film celebrification in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, Poland, Soviet Russia/Russia, and Ukraine before and after 1991
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Stardust, Ephemera, and Surrogates for Divinities -- CHAPTER 1 Eugeniusz Bodo: The Star Who Stole the Show -- CHAPTER 2 The Bondarchuk Dynasty: Two Generations of Imperial(ist) State-Sponsored Celebrities -- CHAPTER 3 Aňa Geislerová: An Evolved Interwar Celebrity for the Post-Totalitarian Era -- CHAPTER 4 Straddling Multiple Spheres: Liudmila Gurchenko -- CHAPTER 5 Agnieszka Holland’s Starburst Career: From Persona Non Grata to International Celebrity on Multiple Fronts -- CHAPTER 6 Krystyna Janda: My Way -- CHAPTER 7 Renata Litvinova’s (Anti-)Imperial Sublime -- CHAPTER 8 Small-Scale Hedonism as Rebellion: Jiří Menzel’s Irresistible Union of Sex and Laughter -- CHAPTER 9 Pretty and Macho: The Eroticized Physicality of Daniel Olbrychski -- CHAPTER 10 Liubov′ Orlova: Dialectic of Knowledge and Mystery -- CHAPTER 11 Volodymyr Zelensky: From Actor to Captain Ukraine -- Index

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Celebrification has thrived for centuries in literature, theater, music, and other cultural spheres, as vividly illustrated by Byron, Sarah Bernhardt, and Paganini. It especially effloresced in cinema after the symbolically named Lumière brothers pioneered movies as light-projected “moving life” to be contemplated and shared in the intimate darkness of theaters. Actors and actresses such as Valentino and Garbo acquired the status of divine beings whose life on and offscreen stimulated fascination and a passionate devotion most frequently invested in religious figures. The recent explosion in social media has only amplified immeasurably the scale and intensity of that adulation. Yearning for the seemingly transcendent, fans as mere mortals seek contact with celebrities as objects of worship that, like nocturnal stars, are simultaneously remote yet accessible. Starlight and Stargazers examines the multifaceted nature and specific manifestations of film celebrification in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, Poland, Soviet Russia/Russia, and Ukraine before and after 1991

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In English.

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