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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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