1st Edition
Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India
By Roos Gerritsen
Copyright 2019
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India , Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth. Cities and towns in the south Indian state Tamil Nadu are consistently ornamented with huge billboards, murals and myriad posters featuring political leaders as well as movie stars. A selective part of these images is put up by their fan clubs. Tamil movie... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
