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Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India / Roos Gerritsen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian Visual Cultures ; 5Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048536269
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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
Summary: 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 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 fans typically manifest themselves by putting up images of their star in public spaces and by generating a plethora of images in their homes. Gerritsen argues that these images are a crucial part of the everyday affective modes of engagement with family members and film stars but they are also symbolizing the political realm in which fans situate themselves. At the same time, Gerritsen shows how these image productions seem to concur with other visual regimes articulated in government restrictions, world class imaginaries and upper class moralities as presented on India's urban streets.
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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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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 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 fans typically manifest themselves by putting up images of their star in public spaces and by generating a plethora of images in their homes. Gerritsen argues that these images are a crucial part of the everyday affective modes of engagement with family members and film stars but they are also symbolizing the political realm in which fans situate themselves. At the same time, Gerritsen shows how these image productions seem to concur with other visual regimes articulated in government restrictions, world class imaginaries and upper class moralities as presented on India's urban streets.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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