In the contemporary society, media heroes WALL SHELF are one of the most influential reference groups, which determines our perception of our own life in terms of happiness, success, justice, well-being, or, on the contrary, in opposite terms.The article is a review of two books: Salakhieva-Talal T.Psychology in Cinema: How to Make Heroes and Stories.
Moscow: Alpina non-fiction; 2019.349 p.; and Lilti A.
The Invention of Celebrity.Transl.from French by P.
S.Kashtanova.Saint Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Publishing Used Girdle House; 2018.
496 p.The author believes that such works are necessary to broaden the horizons of the sociologist focusing on the development of social representations of happiness, justice and well-being: these works explain psychological and visual (the first book) and historical and media (the second book) prerequisites and tools for creating heroes as role models.