Devotional Fanscapes

Shalini Kakar

doi:10.5771/9781793646286

Summary

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 (fan-bhakti) and fan artifacts can help us rethink art, religion, and politics. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book addresses how fan-bhakti is performed in the global landscape, in the process augmenting new religious models and identities based on the idea of the “cinematic sacred.”

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4627-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4628-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 274
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. 1. Note on Translation and Transliteration No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. Abbreviations No access
1. Dialectics of a Popular Sacred No access
2. Making of Cinematic Deities No access
3. Emergence of Star Temples No access
4. Contours of “Publics of Fan-bhakti” No access
5. The Arc of Divinity No access
6. Role of Devotional Fandom in the Interplay between Cinema and Politics No access
7. A “Trashy, Hocus-Pocus” Cinema No access
8. Organization of the Book No access
9. Notes No access
1. 1. When Fans Become Devotees No access
  2. Inventing a Cinematic Sacred and Publics of Fan-Bhakti No access
  3. Ritual Performance: Guru-God Fusion and Ideological Flexibility No access
  4. Amitabh Arati: Communities of Practice No access
  5. Cinematic Darshan No access
  6. Devotee-Fan Art No access
  7. Role of Media No access
  8. Expanded Cinematic Space and Marking the Sacred No access
  9. Bachchan Dham No access
  10. Epilogue: Re-Constructing the “Normal” No access
  11. Notes No access
2. 1. Printed Murtis: The Transformation of the Hindu God Image in the Twentieth Century No access
  2. Film Poster as a Murti No access
  3. “Star Murti”: Mobilizing Cinematic Darshan No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. New Imaginations of Hindu Temples No access
  2. The Shop as a Temple No access
  3. The Museum Ethos and Performative Fan-Bhakti No access
  4. Exhibition and Popular Politics No access
  5. Exhibition Temple and Performative Fan-Bhakti No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. The Painting No access
  2. The Painting as a Ritual Object No access
  3. Notes No access
1. 1. Star Deity: Transcending Hindu Gods No access
  2. 1. 1. God of Style No access
    2. The Rajini Fan: The Role of the RFA in the Construction of Rajinikanth as a Star Deity No access
  3. 1. Emergence of Deified Star Images of Rajinikanth in the United States: A Brief History No access
    2. Chrono-Spatial Convergence No access
  4. Part III: Rajinikanth Fan Association as a “Popular Political Society” No access
  5. 1. Rajini Mudra No access
    2. Star Deity’s Political Entry No access
  6. Transnational Activism of Devotee-fans No access
  7. Notes No access
1. Afterword No access
2. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 235 - 258
Index No access Pages 259 - 272
About the Author No access Pages 273 - 274