Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India / / Roos Gerritsen.
This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well as his appropriation into networks of patronage, praise and social mobility via images.In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian Visual Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on language and figures
- Introduction
- 1. Keeping in control. The figure of the fan in the tamil film industry
- 2. Intimacy on display. Film stars, images, and everyday life
- 3. Vexed veneration: the politics of fandom
- 4. Public intimacies and collective imaginaries
- 5. Chennai beautiful. Shifting urban landscapes and the politics of spectacle
- Epilogue
- References
- Index