Hero And Hero Worship Fandom In Modern India

Author : Rahul Chaturvedi,Hariom Singh,Anita Singh
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648890826

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Hero and Hero-Worship: Fandom in Modern India by Rahul Chaturvedi,Hariom Singh,Anita Singh Pdf

In the aftermath of liberalization of Indian economy in 1991, the study of star-fan studies has experienced exponential expansion. Hero and Hero-Worship: Fandom in Modern India explores the areas of political, religious, film and cricket star fandoms; analyzing the rise of star formations and their consequent fandoms, star-fan bonds, as well as the physical and virtual space that both stars and fans inhabit. As perhaps one of the first book-length studies on Indian fandom, this volume not only draws on the works of Jenkins and other fandom scholars, but also explores the economic and cultural specificities of Indian fandom. This book will be of particular interest to scholars working in the field, as well as general readers interested in understanding star-fan interactions and intersections.

Author : Rahul Chaturvedi,Hariom Singh,Anita Singh
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1648892329

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Hero and Hero-Worship by Rahul Chaturvedi,Hariom Singh,Anita Singh Pdf

In the aftermath of liberalization of Indian economy in 1991, the study of star-fan studies has experienced exponential expansion. Hero and Hero-Worship: Fandom in Modern India explores the areas of political, religious, film and cricket star fandoms; analyzing the rise of star formations and their consequent fandoms, star-fan bonds, as well as the physical and virtual space that both stars and fans inhabit.As perhaps one of the first book-length studies on Indian fandom, this volume not only draws on the works of Jenkins and other fandom scholars, but also explores the economic and cultural specificities of Indian fandom. This book will be of particular interest to scholars working in the field, as well as general readers interested in understanding star-fan interactions and intersections.

Author : Anita Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000411706

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Staging Feminisms by Anita Singh Pdf

This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key themes like feminism and folk epic, community theatre, performance as radical cultural intervention, volatile bodies and celebratory protests. Through analysing performances of theatre stalwarts like Usha Ganguly, Maya Krishna Rao, Sanjoy Ganguly, Shilpi Marwaha and Teejan Bai, the volume discusses the complexities and contradictions of a feminist reading of contemporary performances. A major intervention in the field of feminism and performance, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of gender studies, performance studies, theatre studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology of gender and literature.

Author : Manju Jaidka,Tej N. Dhar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000933154

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English by Manju Jaidka,Tej N. Dhar Pdf

Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.

Author : Arnab Ray,Sibendu Chakraborty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000770247

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Theatre, Margins and Politics by Arnab Ray,Sibendu Chakraborty Pdf

This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins. It looks into the exciting world of performance to examine how theatre as an art form is perfectly placed to both perform and critique complex relations of power, politics, and culture. The volume looks into how drama has historically served as a stage for expressing and showcasing prevalent social, historical, and cultural contexts from which it has emerged or intends to critique. Including a wide range of performative practices like Dalit Theatre, Australian Aboriginal theatre, Western realism, and Yoruba theatre, it explores varied lived experiences of people, and voices of subversion, subalternity, resistance, and transformation. The book scrutinises the strategies of representation enunciated through textuality, theatricality, and performance in these works and the politics they are inextricably linked with. This book will be of interest and use to scholars, researchers, and students of theatre and performance studies, postcolonial studies, race and inequality studies, gender studies, and culture studies.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086808870

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Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Catherine Grant,Kate Random Love
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781912685134

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Fandom as Methodology by Catherine Grant,Kate Random Love Pdf

An illustrated exploration of fandom that combines academic essays with artist pages and experimental texts. Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. Key to the idea of “fandom as methodology” is a focus on the potential for fandom in art to create oppositional spaces, communities, and practices, particularly from queer perspectives, but also through transnational, feminist and artist-of-color fandoms. The book provides a range of examples of artists and writers working in this vein, as well as academic essays that explore the ways in which fandom can be theorized as a methodology for art practice and art history. Fandom as Methodology proposes that many artists and art writers already draw on affective strategies found in fandom. With the current focus in many areas of art history, art writing, and performance studies around affective engagement with artworks and imaginative potentials, fandom is a key methodology that has yet to be explored. Interwoven into the academic essays are lavishly designed artist pages in which artists offer an introduction to their use of fandom as methodology. Contributors Taylor J. Acosta, Catherine Grant, Dominic Johnson, Kate Random Love, Maud Lavin, Owen G. Parry, Alice Butler, SooJin Lee, Jenny Lin, Judy Batalion, Ika Willis. Artists featured in the artist pages Jeremy Deller, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Anna Bunting-Branch, Maria Fusco, Cathy Lomax, Kamau Amu Patton, Holly Pester, Dawn Mellor, Michelle Williams Gamaker, The Women of Colour Index Reading Group, Liv Wynter, Zhiyuan Yang

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Hero worship
ISBN : UOMDLP:abe9471:0001.001

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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Animals
ISBN : UOM:39015015357935

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Wang, Cheng Lu
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799810490

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Handbook of Research on the Impact of Fandom in Society and Consumerism by Wang, Cheng Lu Pdf

Fans of specific sports teams, television series, and video games, to name a few, often create subcultures in which to discuss and celebrate their loyalty and enthusiasm for a particular object or person. Due to their strong emotional attachments, members of these fandoms are often quick to voluntarily invest their time, money, and energy into a related product or brand, thereby creating a group of faithful and passionate consumers that play a significant role in multiple domains of contemporary culture. The Handbook of Research on the Impact of Fandom in Society and Consumerism is an essential reference source that examines the cultural and economic effects of the fandom phenomenon through a multidisciplinary lens and shapes an understanding of the impact of fandom on brand building. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics such as religiosity, cosplay, and event marketing, this publication is ideally designed for marketers, managers, advertisers, brand managers, consumer behavior analysts, product developers, psychologists, entertainment managers, event coordinators, political scientists, anthropologists, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current studies on the global impact of this particularly devoted community.

Author : Debashree Mukherjee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231551670

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Bombay Hustle by Debashree Mukherjee Pdf

From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city. Drawing on original archival research and an innovative transdisciplinary approach, Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic portrait of the consolidation of the Bombay film industry during the talkie transition of the 1920s–1940s. In the decades leading up to independence in 1947, Bombay became synonymous with marketplace thrills, industrial strikes, and modernist experimentation. Its burgeoning film industry embodied Bombay’s spirit of “hustle,” gathering together and spewing out the many different energies and emotions that characterized the city. Bombay Hustle examines diverse sites of film production—finance, pre-production paperwork, casting, screenwriting, acting, stunts—to show how speculative excitement jostled against desires for scientific management in an industry premised on the struggle between contingency and control. Mukherjee develops the concept of a “cine-ecology” in order to examine the bodies, technologies, and environments that collectively shaped the production and circulation of cinematic meaning in this time. The book thus brings into view a range of marginalized film workers, their labor and experiences; forgotten film studios, their technical practices and aesthetic visions; and overlooked connections among media practices, geographical particularities, and historical exigencies.

Author : Teri J. Silvio
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824880989

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Puppets, Gods, and Brands by Teri J. Silvio Pdf

The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere—in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects that seem to have lives of their own—from Facebook algorithms that suggest products for us to buy to robots that respond to human facial expressions. The ubiquity of animation is not a trivial side-effect of the development of digital technologies and the globalization of media markets. Rather, it points to a paradigm shift. In the last century, performance became a key term in academic and popular discourse: The idea that we construct identities through our gestures and speech proved extremely useful for thinking about many aspects of social life. The present volume proposes an anthropological concept of animation as a contrast and complement to performance: The idea that we construct social others by projecting parts of ourselves out into the world might prove useful for thinking about such topics as climate crisis, corporate branding, and social media. Like performance, animation can serve as a platform for comparisons of different cultures and historical eras. Teri Silvio presents an anthropology of animation through a detailed ethnographic account of how characters, objects, and abstract concepts are invested with lives, personalities, and powers—and how people interact with them—in contemporary Taiwan. The practices analyzed include the worship of wooden statues of Buddhist and Daoist deities and the recent craze for cute vinyl versions of these deities, as well as a wildly popular video fantasy series performed by puppets. She reveals that animation is, like performance, a concept that works differently in different contexts, and that animation practices are deeply informed by local traditions of thinking about the relationships between body and soul, spiritual power and the material world. The case of Taiwan, where Chinese traditions merge with Japanese and American popular culture, uncovers alternatives to seeing animation as either an expression of animism or as “playing God.” Looking at the contemporary world through the lens of animation will help us rethink relationships between global and local, identity and otherness, human and non-human.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Heroes
ISBN : UCD:31175026829369

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The Hero as Man of Letters by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Courtney N. Plante,Stephen Reysen,Thomas R. Brooks,Daniel Chadborn
Publisher : Stephen Reysen
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780997628821

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CAPE by Courtney N. Plante,Stephen Reysen,Thomas R. Brooks,Daniel Chadborn Pdf

Researchers across disciplines have been studying the psychology of fans for decades. Seeking to better understand fan behavior and the various factors motivating fans, researchers have studied dozens of variables in hundreds of studies of different fan groups. To date, however, there have been relatively few attempts to integrate this sizable body of work, pulling together findings across from the field to with a broader, more holistic perspective. This book does exactly that, identifying and concisely summarizing research on 28 separate lines of inquiry on the psychology of fans and integrating it all into an empirically-validated model known as the CAPE model. Useful as a textbook for a fandom studies course and as a handbook for fan researchers, this book is essential reading for anyone looking to better understand the state of fan psychology and wanting to conduct their own research exploring the ins and outs of fans of all sorts!

Author : Peter Swirski,Tero Eljas Vanhanen
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781622734634

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The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style by Peter Swirski,Tero Eljas Vanhanen Pdf

Artertainment is more than a novel aesthetic term reflecting the fact that art and entertainment have cross-pollinated each other throughout history. It is a creative strategy that purposely intertwines highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics in the name of reaching the connoisseurs and the masses. The Art of Artertainment sets out to unravel the jumble of aesthetic faultlines and prejudices found wherever we find artistic crossovers—which is to say, everywhere. Revisionist, iconoclastic, and artertaining in its own right, it provides a new framework for the analysis of American nobrow culture from the Colonial times to the digitally turbocharged present.