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1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Intro, Part1-3 -- Introduction -- References -- Part 1 Bollywood and Celebrity -- Chapter 1 Victims, Bollywood and the Construction of a Cele-Meme -- The Celebrity Ecology of Victims -- The Reproachable Victim in Bollywood -- The Therapeutic Victim -- Moral Icons, the Cele-Meme and Heteropathic Empathy -- References -- Chapter 2 Brand Bollywood Care -- Vernacular Cosmopolitanism -- Antiquity, Antecedents, Authenticity -- Local Star, Global Stage -- Notes -- References |
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Chapter 3 Celebrity, Charisma, and Post-Truth Relations: Agnogenesis, Affect, and Bollywood -- Introduction: Defining Charisma and Post-Truth -- Mimetic Capital and Sensuous Fidelity -- Post-Truth Relations and Agnogenesis -- Conclusion and Future Research -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Celebrity and Lifewriting -- Chapter 4 What the Stars Tell: Celebrity Lifewriting in India -- Life Writing, Adaptation, and Interart -- The Ironic Subject of Star Auto/Biography -- The Co-authored Life Narrative -- References -- Chapter 5 Biopics -- The Notable Subject -- National Identity -- The Family |
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Artifactuality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Bollywood Stars and Cancer Memoirs -- From the Cosmetic to the Pathologized Body -- The Connected Self and the Biosocial Network -- Notes -- References -- Part 3 Celebrity, Culture and Politics -- Chapter 7 Indian Writing in English as Celebrity -- The Authenticity Debate -- Prizes and Awards -- The Critics' Choice -- 'Lit.Fests' -- Practitioners and Polemicists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Watery Friction: The River Narmada, Celebrity, and New Grammars of Protest -- 'Myths' of a River, Icons of Protest |
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Rituals, Cultural Stereotypes and Protest -- Conclusion: Chronotope and Celebrity -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Mobility and Insurgent Celebrityhood: The Case of Arundhati Roy -- Generic Mobility -- Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Mobility -- Mobility and Mobilisation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Desecration and the Politics of 'Image Pollution': Ambedkar Statues and the 'Sculptural Encounter' in India -- Sacralising Ambedkar -- Desecration and Its Profane Aesthetics -- Desecration and its symbolic economy -- Desecration as counter-spectacle and political culture jamming |
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Image pollution, revanchism and the affrontier -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Authors, Self-Fashioning and Online Cultural Production in the Age of Hindu Celevision -- Introduction -- Ancestral Self-Fashioning -- Cultural Production of Hinduism, Online -- Authors in the Age of Hindu Celevision -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- End Matter -- Index |
Summary |
This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics |
Subject |
Fame.
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Celebrities -- India
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Celebrities.
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Fame.
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India.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781785277887 |
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178527788X |
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9781785277870 |
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1785277871 |
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