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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Introduction: Stardust, Ephemera, and Surrogates for Divinities
Helena Goscilo
1. Eugeniusz Bodo: The Star Who Stole the Show
Beth Holmgren
2. The Bondarchuk Dynasty: Two Generations of Imperial(ist) State-Sponsored Celebrities
Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova
3. Aňa Gieslerová: An Evolved Interwar Celebrity for the Post-Totalitarian Era
Nicholas Hudac
4. Straddling Multiple Spheres: Liudmila Gurchenko
Tetyana Dovbnya
5. Agnieszka Holland’s Starburst Career: From Persona Non Grata to International Celebrity on Multiple Fronts
Elżbieta Ostrowska
6. Krystyna Janda: My Way
Ronald Meyer
7. Renata Litvinova’s (Anti-)Imperial Sublime
Olga Mukhortova
8. Small-Scale Hedonism as Rebellion: Jiří Menzel’s Irresistible Union of Sex and Laughter
Herbert Eagle
9. Pretty and Macho: The Eroticized Physicality of Daniel Olbrychski
Helena Goscilo
10. Liubov′ Orlova: Dialectic of Knowledge and Mystery
Rimgaila Salys
11. Volodymyr Zelensky: From Actor to Captain Ukraine
Anastasia Gordienko
Circa l’autore
Helena Goscilo’s current research resides in the domains of film and queer/gay culture: namely, a monograph on current Polish women film directors, Film’s Feisty Femmes: Polish Women Directors, a co-edited issue of The Polish Review devoted to Polish cinema, and a volume on Slavic queerness. Down the line are a co-written book on the multimedia Anna Karenina and a resumption of work on a study of graphics from Stalin to Yeltsin.
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