Intimate visualities and the politics of fandom in India /

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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. In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerritsen, Roos (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Asian Visual Cultures Ser.
Temas:
Rajin̲ikānt, > 1950-
Motion picture industry > Social aspects > India.
Motion picture audiences > India > Tamil Nadu > Psychology.
Fans (Persons) > India > Tamil Nadu > Psychology.
Families > India > Tamil Nadu.
Cinéma > Industrie > Aspect social > Inde.
Cinéma > Publics > Inde > Tamil Nadu > Psychologie.
Familles > Inde > Tamil Nadu.
Popular culture.
Urban communities.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion picture industry > Social aspects.
Families.
Fans (Persons) > Psychology.
Motion picture audiences > Psychology.
India.
India > Tamil Nadu.
Anthropology, South India, fandom, visual culture, urban space, affect.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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