The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929–1953

Pisch, Anita Elizabeth

doi:10.22459/pcssp.12.2016

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“…Thus, in establishing the cult of Naira Marley, the notion and production of propaganda using music, song text, video, and social media messaging for consumption by the masses and his fans in particular is broadly reflective of personality cult processes. Contemporary personality cults are thus conceivable and doable following the capacity to disseminate portrayals of the idolised persona (Pisch 2016), or 'cult-head' and cult products in a way that guarantees widespread acceptance (Lu and Soboleva 2014). The promotion of certain ideologies that elicit public interest, indignation, and controversy has sustained the iconic status of some popular musicians.…”

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‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria

Sylvanus

Eze

2021

Celebrity Studies

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Today, differences in popular music genres and practices can be attributed to different peoples and cultures of the world in much the same sense as the shared and varied degrees of personality cult traditions. In this respect, Nigeria ranks amongst others with a unique and demonstrable popular music and personality cult culture. Of the available literature, none addresses the relationship between popular music and personality cult in Nigeria. This article is the first to do so. Here, we go beyond a mere analysis of the attributes of an idolised persona in, say, Naira Marley to examining both the ideological and sociological determinants--of literacy, media representation, social class, musical taste, deviancy, and demographic differences--that broadly support Nigerian popular music and personality cult practices. Through synthesising various views of the concept of personality cult with quasi-ethnographic data from some devotees of the Marlian cult, this article provides a critical intervention into how such activities as listening, imitating, and idolising are constructed forms of hero-worship in the Nigerian pop music scene.

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Section: Some Thoughts On Personality Cultmentioning

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‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria

Sylvanus

Eze

2021

Celebrity Studies

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“…A cult of personality is a historical phenomenon when by the means of various types of mass media propaganda an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a political figure is created (Márquez, 2018;Pisch, 2016;Wells, 2014). According to Pisch (2016), the term "kul't lichnosti" (Cult of personality) was first used in the Soviet Union "in Nikita Krushchev's 1956 Secret Speech to the Twentieth Party Congress of the VKP, in which he denounced the 'cult of the individual' surrounding the then-deceased Stalin" (p. 52). Márquez (2018) states that the term "cult of personality" appears by different names, such as ruler cult, personality cult, cult of personality, and leader cult.…”

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“President-Protector”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of a News Report Promoting the Personality Cult of the President of Turkmenistan G. Berdymukhamedov

Sarkisova¹

2021

OJSA

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The cult of personality started by the first President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov has acquired new dimensions with the present leader of the country. The cult of personality of Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is actively constructed via mass media. This paper examines two short clips of a news report dedicated to the President’s birthday celebration that was broadcasted on the Turkmen national TV on 26 June 2020. The paper analyzes a set of specific mechanisms of flattery inflation used in the report and demonstrates special linguistic choices and visual patterns applied to force a specific ideology on the audience. Due to the multimodal nature of the analyzed discourse, multimodal critical discourse analysis has been implemented, additionally informed by the systemic functional linguistics and the visual semiotic analysis.

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“…We are dealing with an icon 6 . 6 For an analysis of other forms of propaganda used during the Stalin dictatorship (posters, for instance) see Pisch (2016).…”

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Imagens e poder: encenação, rasura e pintura

Barroso

Toldy

2020

revistacomsoc

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Este artigo procura abordar o poder da presença da imagem em três períodos históricos do século XX, algo que se tornou omnipresente nestas épocas históricas, mas que não é exclusivo das mesmas: veja-se a referência ao impacto da visão de parte do corpo descoberto de Frine, levada a julgamento no século IV a.C. A imagem, em dois dos casos aqui apresentados (o nazismo e o estalinismo), constituiu um instrumento ao serviço do poder, com o objetivo de encenar simultaneamente a “heroicidade” e uma normalidade em contraste radical com uma brutalidade que marcou decisivamente a história e constituiu um dos principais momentos de trevas vividos no século XX. Por seu turno, sob Estaline, a imagem é manipulada, tornando o processo de rasura de personagens uma alegoria macabra da sua aniquilação real. A eficácia da reconstrução da realidade, através da manipulação da imagem, passa, assim, por uma ilusão de omnipotência: como se os ditadores tivessem o poder de enunciar, construir e destruir a “realidade”. Na terceira parte, partindo da questão da acentuada erosão das imagens na atualidade, a discussão centra-se na resposta que a pintura abre e problematiza. Ao contrário do carácter efémero da fotografia, a pintura sobrevive a tempos sombrios, persiste teimosamente, como se pode ver no caso de Tuymans. A memória não pode ser apagada. E porque não é programática, porque constitui uma tentativa de despoluição da imagem, rasga o espaço para a busca de sentido.

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The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929–1953

Cited by 27 publications

References 268 publications

‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria

‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria

“President-Protector”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of a News Report Promoting the Personality Cult of the President of Turkmenistan G. Berdymukhamedov

Imagens e poder: encenação, rasura e pintura

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