Starlight and Stargazers (eBook)

Slavic Screen Celebrities

Helena Goscilo (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
374 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-501-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Lumire 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Film and Media Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Film and Media Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: Celebrification • Czech Film • Czechoslovakian film • Film Stars • polish film • Russian Film • Slavic celebrities • Slavic film • Slavic film stars • soviet film • Ukrainian film
• ISBN-13: 979-8-88719-501-8 / 9798887195018