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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.

Motion picture industry --- Motion picture audiences --- Fans (Persons) --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Performing arts --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Social aspects --- Psychology. --- Audiences --- Rajiṉikānt, --- Civāji Rāv Keykvāṭ, --- Keykvāṭ, Civāji Rāv, --- Cattirapati, --- Rajinikanth, --- Rajin̲i, --- Rajnikanth, --- Rajnikant, --- Rajni Kanth, --- Rajani, --- Shivaji Rao Gaekward, --- Gaekward, Shivaji Rao, --- Civājirāv, --- Shivajirao, --- Anthropology, South India, fandom, visual culture, urban space, affect.

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"This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in North and South America, Asia and Europe. The volume expands the increasingly popular field of urban food studies to include the senses in which we 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 insights 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 senses can generate new understandings of how people live together or create boundaries in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, urban studies and sociocultural anthropology"--

Food habits --- Nutritional anthropology --- Food consumption