Intimate Visualities And The Politics Of Fandom In India

Author : Roos Gerritsen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789048536269

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Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India by Roos Gerritsen Pdf

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.

Author : Selvaraj Velayutham,Vijay Devadas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429520761

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Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by Selvaraj Velayutham,Vijay Devadas Pdf

Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century explores the current state of Tamil cinema, one of India’s largest film industries. Since its inception a century ago, Tamil cinema has undergone major transformations, and today it stands as a foremost cultural institution that profoundly shapes Tamil culture and identity. This book investigates the structural, ideological, and societal cleavages that continue to be reproduced, new ideas, modes of representation and narratives that are being created, and the impact of new technologies on Tamil cinema. It advances a critical interdisciplinary approach that challenges the narratives of Tamil cinema to reveal the social forces at work.

Author : Constantine V. Nakassis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487541804

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Onscreen/Offscreen by Constantine V. Nakassis Pdf

Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over the question "what is an image?" Answers to this question may be found in the ontological politics that take place on film sets, in theatre halls, and in the social fabric of everyday life in South India, from populist electoral politics and the gendering of social space to caste uplift and domination. Bridging and synthesizing linguistic anthropology, film studies, visual studies, and media anthropology, Onscreen/Offscreen rethinks key issues across a number of fields concerned with the semiotic constitution of social life, from the performativity and ontology of images to questions of spectatorship, realism, and presence. In doing so, it offers both a challenge to any approach that would separate image from social context and a new vision for linguistic anthropology beyond the question of "language."

Author : Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000360707

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Food, Senses and the City by Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser Pdf

This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in cities and how we can understand cities through food. It reveals how the senses can provide unique insight into how the city and its dwellers are being reshaped and understood. Recognising cities as diverse and dynamic places, the book provides a wide range of case studies from food production to preparation and mediatisation through to consumption. These relationships are interrogated through themes of belonging and homemaking to discuss how food, memory, and materiality connect and disrupt past, present, and future imaginaries. As cities become larger, busier, and more crowded, this volume contributes to actual and potential ways that the senses can generate new understandings of how people live together in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, urban studies, and socio-cultural anthropology.

Author : Raul Matta,Charles-Edouard de Suremain,Chantal Crenn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000185768

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Food Identities at Home and on the Move by Raul Matta,Charles-Edouard de Suremain,Chantal Crenn Pdf

How does food restore the fragmented world of migrants and the displaced? What similar processes are involved in challenging, maintaining or reinforcing divisions between groups coexisting in the same living place? Food Identities at Home and on the Move examines how ‘home’ is negotiated around food in the current worldwide context of uncertainty, mobility and displacement. Drawing on empirical approaches to heritage, identity and migration studies, the contributors analyse the relationship between food and the various understandings of home and dwelling. With case studies on sushi around the world, food as heritage in the Afghan diaspora and Mexican foodways in Chicago, these chapters offer novel readings on the convergence of food and migration studies, the anthropology of space and place and the field of mobility by focusing on how entangled stories of food and home are put on display for constructing the present and imagining the future.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1099 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Gangster Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Constantine V. Nakassis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226327990

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Doing Style by Constantine V. Nakassis Pdf

In Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call “style” anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Tamil Nadu, Nakassis explores the complex ways that acts and objects of style such as brand fashion, English slang, and film representations express the multiple desires and anxieties of this generation, who live in the shadow of the promise of global modernity. As Nakassis shows, while signs of the global, modern world are everywhere in post-liberalization India, for most of these young people this world is still very distant—a paradox that results in youth’s profound sense of being in between. This in-betweenness manifests itself in the ambivalent quality of style, the ways in which stylish objects are necessarily marked as counterfeit, mixed, or ironical. In order to show how this in-betweenness materializes in particular media, Nakassis explores the entanglements between youth peer groups and the sites where such stylish media objects are produced, arguing that these entanglements deeply condition the production and circulation of the media objects themselves. The result is an important and timely look at the tremendous forces of youth culture, globalization, and mass media as they interact in the vibrancy of a rapidly changing India.

Author : Kajri Jain
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478012887

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Gods in the Time of Democracy by Kajri Jain Pdf

In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but one of many massive statues built following India's economic reforms of the 1990s. In Gods in the Time of Democracy Kajri Jain examines how monumental icons emerged as a religious and political form in contemporary India, mobilizing the concept of emergence toward a radical treatment of art historical objects as dynamic assemblages. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork at giant statue sites in India and its diaspora and interviews with sculptors, patrons, and visitors, Jain masterfully describes how public icons materialize the intersections between new image technologies, neospiritual religious movements, Hindu nationalist politics, globalization, and Dalit-Bahujan verifications of equality and presence. Centering the ex-colony in rethinking key concepts of the image, Jain demonstrates how these new aesthetic forms entail a simultaneously religious and political retooling of the “infrastructures of the sensible.”

Author : Jonathan Gray,Cornel Sandvoss,C. Lee Harrington
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479812769

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Fandom, Second Edition by Jonathan Gray,Cornel Sandvoss,C. Lee Harrington Pdf

Introduction: why still study fans? / Cornel Sandvoss, Jonathan Gray, and C. Lee Harrington -- Fan texts and objects -- The death of the reader? : literary theory and the study of texts in popular culture / Cornel Sandvoss -- Intimate intertextuality and performative fragments in media fanfiction / Kristina Busse -- Media academics as media audiences : aesthetic judgments in media and cultural studies / Matt Hills -- Copyright law, fan practices, and the rights of the author (2017) / Rebecca Tushnet -- Toy fandom, adulthood, and the ludic age : creative material culture as play / Katriina Heljakka -- Spaces of fandom -- Loving music : listeners, entertainments, and the origins of music fandom in nineteenth-century America / Daniel Cavicchi -- Resisting technology in music fandom : nostalgia, authenticity, and Kate Bush's "Before the dawn" / Lucy Bennett -- I scream therefore I fan? : music audiences and affective citizenship / Mark Duffett -- A sort of homecoming: fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage / Will Brooker -- Reimagining the imagined community : online media fandoms in the age of global convergence / Lori Hitchcock Morimoto and Bertha Chin -- Temporalities of fandom -- Do all "good things" come to an end? : revisiting Martha Stewart fans after imclone / Melissa A. Click -- The lives of fandoms / Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington -- "What are you collecting now?" seth, comics, and meaning management / Henry Jenkins -- Sex, utopia, and the queer temporalities of fannish love / Alexis Lothian -- The fan citizen: fan politics and activism -- The news : you gotta love it / Jonathan Gray -- Memory, archive, and history in political fan fiction / Abigail De Kosnik -- Between rowdies and rasikas : rethinking fan activity in Indian film culture / Aswin Punathambekar -- Black twitter and the politics of viewing scandal / Dayna Chatman -- Deploying oppositional fandoms : activists' use of sports fandom in the Redskins controversy / Lori Kido Lopez and Jason Kido Lopez -- Fan labor and fan-producer interactions -- Ethics of fansubbing in Anime's hybrid public culture / Mizuko Ito -- Live from hall H : fan/producer symbiosis at San Diego comic-con / Anne Gilbert -- Fantagonism: factions, institutions, and constitutive hegemonies of fandom -- Derek johnson -- The powers that squee : Orlando Jones and intersectional fan studies / Suzanne Scott -- Measuring fandom : social tv analytics and the integration of fandom into television audience measurement / Philip M. Napoli and Allie Kosterich -- About the contributors -- Index

Author : Nicolle Lamerichs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9089649387

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Productive Fandom by Nicolle Lamerichs Pdf

This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value.

Author : Pedram Dibazar,Judith Naeff
Publisher : Cities and Cultures
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9462984352

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Visualizing the Street by Pedram Dibazar,Judith Naeff Pdf

Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space.

Author : Ashis Nandy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : India
ISBN : 0195639367

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The Secret Politics of Our Desires by Ashis Nandy Pdf

This book deals with an important and too-often ignored area of cultural studies. To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its very rawest. The questions and perspectives this book presents provoke a thinking of cinema that is political in the widest sense from cinemas importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to psycho-social perspectives on identity, class and gender. The contributors deal with a range of themes from the metaphor of the slum as a defining cultural phenomenon to personal reflections on the political meanings and strategies of South Asian film, from Tamil blockbusters to the intrinsic ineffectivity of TV as a propagator of state ideology. Whilst the book is essential reading for students and academics of film, media and of South Asian studies. It will also fascinate anyone with an interest in the genuinely global phenomenon of South Asian cinema.

Author : Mel Y. Chen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822352723

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Animacies by Mel Y. Chen Pdf

Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness

Author : Dan Podjed,Meta Gorup,Pavel Borecký,Carla Guerrón Montero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000182736

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Why the World Needs Anthropologists by Dan Podjed,Meta Gorup,Pavel Borecký,Carla Guerrón Montero Pdf

Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists? This collection of essays written by prominent academic, practising and applied anthropologists aims to answer this provocative question. In an accessible and appealing style, each author in this volume inquires about the social value and practical application of the discipline of anthropology. Contributors note that the problems the world faces at a global scale are both new and old, unique and universal, and that solving them requires the use of long-proven tools as well as innovative approaches. They highlight that using anthropology in relevant ways outside academia contributes to the development of a new paradigm in anthropology, one where the ability to collaborate across disciplinary and professional boundaries becomes both central and legitimate. Contributors provide specific suggestions to anthropologists and the public at large on practical ways to use anthropology to change the world for the better. This one-of-a-kind volume will be of interest to fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public.

Author : Aswin Punathambekar,Sriram Mohan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780472131402

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Global Digital Cultures by Aswin Punathambekar,Sriram Mohan Pdf

Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.