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Roos Gerritsen

Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India

English · Hardback

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Description

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.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Keeping in control: The figure of the fan in the Tamil film industry 2. Intimacy on display: Movie 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.

About the author

Dr. Roos Gerritsen is a media anthropologist writing on popular culture, photography, and cinema in India. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University and has been an assistant professor at Heidelberg University. She has published among others in Ethnos and Visual Anthropology.

Product details

Authors	Roos Gerritsen
Publisher	Amsterdam University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	28.10.2019

EAN	9789462985230
ISBN	978-94-62-98523-0
No. of pages	256
Series	Amsterdam University Press
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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