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Devotional Fanscapes

Name: Devotional Fanscapes
Brand: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
SKU: 9781793646279
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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERSISBN: 9781793646279

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

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By Shalini Kakar
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Release Date: February 15, 2023
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 294

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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

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