Intimacy on Display
Movie Stars, Images and Everyday Life in South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roos Gerritsen (0000-0001-7452-5158, North-West State Technical University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 382-405 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.2016.1192363 |
| OpenAlex | W2482475441 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Because of the close links between the Tamil movie industry and politics, and the position of fans in this, everyday engagements of fans with their actors are generally overlooked. This article focuses on how fandom unfolds in the familial space in Tamil Nadu state, South India. Brothers fight over images, newlywed couples insert movie stars in their wedding photography, and fathers take a son to their favorite star to get him back on the right track. I argue that fandom is inflected in familial relationships as well as being informed by them. Further, I argue that personalized images of movie stars play a crucial role herein
Aesthetics · Art · Economic shortage · Everyday life · Fandom · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Star (game theory · Tamil · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Museums and communities
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Four Types of Visual Culture
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India
What Do Pictures Want?
Vision, Race, and Modernity
Gods in the Bazaar
Refracted Visions
Beyond Aesthetics
Wedding Videos in North Kerala
Between Fantasy and ‘Reality’
The Image Trap
Elvis Culture
The Goddess and the Nation
Politics and the Film in Tamilnadu
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
Handbook of Material Culture
Mediating Absence
Penetrating gazes
Dangerous Desires
Glancing
House Full
Visual Piety
The Nation (Un)Pictured? Chromolithography and 'Popular' Politics in India, 1878-1995
Articles of Faith
Media spectacles
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |