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Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India

English · Hardback

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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.

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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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