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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 and fan artifacts can help
us rethink art, religion, and politics. With its interdisciplinary
approach, this book addresses how notions of fan bhakti (devotion)
are 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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