Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India
Published on 1. October 2025
256 pages
978-1-040-78774-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth. Cities and towns in the south Indian state Tamil Nadu are consistently ornamented with huge billboards, murals and myriad posters featuring political leaders as well as movie stars. A selective part of these images is put up by their fan clubs. Tamil movie fans typically manifest themselves by putting up images of their star in public spaces and by generating a plethora of images in their homes. Gerritsen argues that these images are a crucial part of the everyday affective modes of engagement with family members and film stars but they are also symbolizing the political realm in which fans situate themselves. At the same time, Gerritsen shows how these image productions seem to concur with other visual regimes articulated in government restrictions, world class imaginaries and upper class moralities as presented on India's urban streets.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
17,27 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78774-8 (9781040787748)
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Roos Gerritsen
Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India
Book
approx. 12/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
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Roos Gerritsen
Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India
Book
10/2019
Amsterdam University Press
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Person
Dr. Roos Gerritsen is a media anthropologist writing on popular culture, photography, and cinema in India. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University and has been an assistant professor at Heidelberg University. She has published among others in Ethnos and Visual Anthropology.
Content
Introduction 1. Keeping in control: The figure of the fan in the Tamil film industry 2. Intimacy on display: Movie stars, images, and everyday life 3. Vexed Veneration: The politics of fandom 4. Public intimacies and collective imaginaries 5. Chennai Beautiful: Shifting urban landscapes and the politics of spectacle, Epilogue, References, Index.
