Shalini Kakar

Devotional Fanscapes

Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book is an analysis of visual culture and star temples that bring cinema, fandom, religion, and politics into undocumented negotiations in national and transnational contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9781793646279
• ISBN-10: 1793646279
• Artikelnr.: 65696959

Autorenporträt

By Shalini Kakar

Inhaltsangabe

PART I. Constructing Identity: Star as a Deity and Fan as a Bhakt
CHAPTER 1: "Sorry God, We Worship Amitabh More than You": Bollywood Deities
and the 'Publics of Fan-bhakti'
CHAPTER 2: Star Murtis: Film Posters as Ritual Objects
PART II. Materiality and Spatial Constructs: Devotee-Fan Art
CHAPTER 3: "Starring" Madhuri as Durga: The Madhuri Dixit Temple and the
Performative Fan-bhakti of Pappu Sardar
CHAPTER 4: Transforming the Object of Art: M. F. Husain and Devotional
Fandom
PART III. Crossing Borders: Devotee-Fans and their Transnational
Socio-Political Trajectories
CHAPTER 5: Get Rajinified: India to USA, the "God of Style" and his
Devotee-fans