{"product_id":"starlight-and-stargazers-helena-goscilo-9798887194998","title":"Starlight and Stargazers: Slavic Screen Celebrities","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrification 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 Lumi?egrave;re 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. \u003ci\u003eStarlight and Stargazers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helena Goscilo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798887194998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Academic Studies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d","brand":"Helena Goscilo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46807104225535,"sku":"9798887194998","price":129.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a116230-36bc-4006-9a12-3e23d24238ef.jpg?v=1745378563","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/starlight-and-stargazers-helena-goscilo-9798887194998","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}