Devotional Fanscapes - Shalini Kakar

Devotional Fanscapes

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

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
298 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4627-9 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.”

Shalini Kakar is an independent scholar and art historian.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 237 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-7936-4627-9 / 1793646279
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-4627-9 / 9781793646279
Zustand Neuware
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