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This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.
List of contents
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Stars, Styles, Society and Spectacle; Part 1. Bollywood and Celebrity; 1. Victims, Bollywood and the Construction of a Cele-Meme; 2. Brand Bollywood Care: Celebrity, Charity and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism; 3. Celebrity, Charisma, and Post-truth Relations: Agnogenesis, Affect, and Bollywood; Part 2. Celebrity and Lifewriting; 4. What the Stars Tell: Celebrity Lifewriting in India; 5. Biopics; 6. Bollywood Stars and Cancer Memoirs; Part 3. Celebrity, Culture and Politics; 7. Indian Writing in English as Celebrity; 8. Watery Friction: The River Narmada, Celebrity, and New Grammars of Protest; 9. Mobility and Insurgent Celebrityhood: The Case of Arundhati Roy; 10. Desecration and the Politics of 'Image Pollution': Ambedkar Statues and the 'Sculptural Encounter' in India; 11. Authors, Self- Fashioning and Online Cultural Production in the Age of Hindu Celevision; Index.
About the author
Pramod K Nayar is Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His work in postcolonial studies includes Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012), English Writing and India, 1600-1920:Colonizing Aesthetics (2008)and Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008). His interests in cultural studies include superheroes, consumer culture, 'cool', posthumanism and new media cultures, and his work here includes Posthumanism ( 2013)An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006) and Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004) besides numerous essays on cyberculture and, more recently, on human rights narratives.
