Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Putin as celebrity and cultural icon / ed. Helena Goscilo. - xix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 80 . - BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 80. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 0415528518 9780415528511

LCCN: 2012004446

Subjects--Personal Names:
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- --Public opinion.
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- --In literature.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Presidents--Russia (Federation)
Russians--Attitudes--Russia (Federation)

LC Class. No.: DK510.766.P87 / P88 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 947.0862092