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Author: Helena Goscilo (Ohio State University, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781138815742
ISBN 10: 1138815748
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 23 June 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'The book's visual elements combine to show how Putin's `comics-cum-Hollywood-action-film image' (p. 5) is both constructed and deconstructed in Russia today. The overall impression is that there is not a single area of life in Russia on which Putin has not left his mark. It may well be true that, as Goscilo remarks on her chapter of the man's particular type of machismo, `the mythology elaborated to showcase Putin's public persona of singular heroic masculinity is so hyperbolic as to verge on parody' (p. 200). Nevertheless, for all its vacuity and ridiculousness, the Putin `brand' is incontestably ubiquitous. [...] Goscilo and her contributors skilfully deconstruct the cult of personality on which that power rests.' - Graham H. Roberts, Universite, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, Reviewed for Slavonica Review 19.1, pp. 79-81 'Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon contains eight essays treating Putin's cult of personality, his language, his public performance, and image, and the role these play in crafting Putin as a powerful symbol of the post-soviet Russian nation. What unites all these essays is Putin as spectacle where, wrote Guy Debord, all that once was directly lived has become mere representation. . . .The spectacle appears at once as society itself, as a part of society and as a means of unification. Putin as spectacle vividly captures Debord's thesis.' - Sean Guillory, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, councilforeuropeanstudies.org
'The book's visual elements combine to show how Putin's 'comics-cum-Hollywood-action-film image' (p. 5) is both constructed and deconstructed in Russia today. The overall impression is that there is not a single area of life in Russia on which Putin has not left his mark. It may well be true that, as Goscilo remarks on her chapter of the man's particular type of machismo, 'the mythology elaborated to showcase Putin's public persona of singular heroic masculinity is so hyperbolic as to verge on parody' (p. 200). Nevertheless, for all its vacuity and ridiculousness, the Putin 'brand' is incontestably ubiquitous. [...] Goscilo and her contributors skilfully deconstruct the cult of personality on which that power rests.' - Graham H. Roberts, Universite, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, Reviewed for Slavonica Review 19.1, pp. 79-81 'Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon contains eight essays treating Putin's cult of personality, his language, his public performance, and image, and the role these play in crafting Putin as a powerful symbol of the post-soviet Russian nation. What unites all these essays is Putin as spectacle where, wrote Guy Debord, all that once was directly lived has become mere representation...The spectacle appears at once as society itself, as a part of society and as a means of unification. Putin as spectacle vividly captures Debord's thesis.' - Sean Guillory, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, councilforeuropeanstudies.org
Author Information
Helena Goscilo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
