Essays in celebrity culture : stars and styles /: stars and styles. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pramod K. Nayar.
• Authors: Nayar, Pramod K
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Stars, Styles, Society and Spectacle; Section I: Bollywood and Celebrity; 1. Victims, Bollywood and the Construction of a Cele-meme; 2. Brand Bollywood Care: Celebrity, Charity and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism; 3. Celebrity, Charisma and Post-truth Relations: Agnogenesis, Affect and Bollywood; Section II: Celebrity and Life Writing; 4. What the Stars Tell: Celebrity Life Writing in India; 5. Biopics; 6. Bollywood Stars and Cancer Memoirs; Section III: Celebrity, Culture and Politics; 7. Indian Writing in English as Celebrity; 8. Watery Friction: The River Narmada, Celebrity, and New Grammars of Protest; 9. Mobility and Insurgent Celebrityhood: The Case of Arundhati Roy; 10. Desecration and the Politics of ‘Image Pollution’: Ambedkar Statues and the ‘Sculptural Encounter’ in India; 11. Authors, Self-fashioning and Online Cultural Production in the Age of Hindu Celevision.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4; Fame; Celebrities -- India
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785277887; 9781785277870
• Related ISBNs: 9781785277863
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