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Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond de Shalini Kakar

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

Autor Shalini Kakar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 feb 2023

Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond examines how fans worship film stars as deities.

Focusing on temples dedicated to Bollywood (Hindi cinema) stars and the artifacts produced by Hindi and Tamil cinema fans, Shalini Kakar illustrates how the fan constructs their identity as a devotee and that of the star as a deity. Extending her research from India to the US, Kakar highlights the transnational dimensions of this phenomenon to demonstrate the degree to which devotional fan practices and fan artifacts can help us rethink art, religion, and politics.

With its interdisciplinary approach, this book addresses how notions of fan bhakti (devotion) are performed in the global landscape, in the process augmenting new religious models and identities based on the idea of the "cinematic sacred."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781793646279
ISBN-10: 1793646279
Pagini: 298
Ilustrații: 56 b/w illustrations;
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

Progressing in a well-thought-out complexity, Kakar's study uncovers many effective methodologies for the worship of star deities, including her coining of several valuable lexes... I highly recommend the use of this volume or chapters from this volume in a film studies, art history, or religious studies class covering contemporary India.
Devotional Fanscapes gives the unique phenomenon of Bollywood fandom the scholarly attention it deserves, putting it in the context of everyday Hindu religiosity and the transnational cultural networks of which it forms an important part.
A fascinating study of film fandom in the context of Hindu bhakti. This book will engage students of religion, cinema and politics of South Asia and beyond. An excellent debut from a scholar to watch.