Chargement en cours…
Essays in celebrity culture stars and styles.
This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
ANTHEM PRESS,
2021.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Intro, Part1-3
- Introduction
- References
- Part 1 Bollywood and Celebrity
- Chapter 1 Victims, Bollywood and the Construction of a Cele-Meme
- The Celebrity Ecology of Victims
- The Reproachable Victim in Bollywood
- The Therapeutic Victim
- Moral Icons, the Cele-Meme and Heteropathic Empathy
- References
- Chapter 2 Brand Bollywood Care
- Vernacular Cosmopolitanism
- Antiquity, Antecedents, Authenticity
- Local Star, Global Stage
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 3 Celebrity, Charisma, and Post-Truth Relations: Agnogenesis, Affect, and Bollywood
- Introduction: Defining Charisma and Post-Truth
- Mimetic Capital and Sensuous Fidelity
- Post-Truth Relations and Agnogenesis
- Conclusion and Future Research
- Notes
- References
- Part 2 Celebrity and Lifewriting
- Chapter 4 What the Stars Tell: Celebrity Lifewriting in India
- Life Writing, Adaptation, and Interart
- The Ironic Subject of Star Auto/Biography
- The Co-authored Life Narrative
- References
- Chapter 5 Biopics
- The Notable Subject
- National Identity
- The Family
- Artifactuality
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 6 Bollywood Stars and Cancer Memoirs
- From the Cosmetic to the Pathologized Body
- The Connected Self and the Biosocial Network
- Notes
- References
- Part 3 Celebrity, Culture and Politics
- Chapter 7 Indian Writing in English as Celebrity
- The Authenticity Debate
- Prizes and Awards
- The Critics' Choice
- 'Lit.Fests'
- Practitioners and Polemicists
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 8 Watery Friction: The River Narmada, Celebrity, and New Grammars of Protest
- 'Myths' of a River, Icons of Protest
- Rituals, Cultural Stereotypes and Protest
- Conclusion: Chronotope and Celebrity
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 9 Mobility and Insurgent Celebrityhood: The Case of Arundhati Roy
- Generic Mobility
- Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Mobility
- Mobility and Mobilisation
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 10 Desecration and the Politics of 'Image Pollution': Ambedkar Statues and the 'Sculptural Encounter' in India
- Sacralising Ambedkar
- Desecration and Its Profane Aesthetics
- Desecration and its symbolic economy
- Desecration as counter-spectacle and political culture jamming
- Image pollution, revanchism and the affrontier
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 11 Authors, Self-Fashioning and Online Cultural Production in the Age of Hindu Celevision
- Introduction
- Ancestral Self-Fashioning
- Cultural Production of Hinduism, Online
- Authors in the Age of Hindu Celevision
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- End Matter
- Index