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Record Nr.

UNINA9910751390003321

Autore

Suparsad Viraj

Titolo

Being Bollywood : Postfeminism, Celebrity Culture and Femininity in the Global South / / by Viraj Suparsad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9789819957002

9789819956999

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies, , 2662-7930

Disciplina

780.71

Soggetti

Sex

Gender identity in mass media

Identity politics

Political planning

Gender Studies

Media and Gender

Politics and Gender

Public Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical contexts -- 3. Young women -- 4. Wives -- 5. Mothers -- 6. The tangible shift -- 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Through engaging media coverage of the public lives of Bollywood actresses, this book unveils understandings of idealized femininity and gender within this cultural context. Beyond its own borders, such a context is unique given the global relevance of content from and about Bollywood with members of the diaspora as well as those culturally Indian individuals that are no longer part of the diaspora. This book thus engages these actresses as global Indian celebrities who are framed and presented as contemporary urban Indian exemplars of gender via media coverage about them. The book therefore offers a robust and detailed case study of the Bollywood star system so as to demonstrate how the nuances of this unique cultural context influence the dimensions of postfeminism and celebrity culture therein. Viraj



Suparsad is a post-doctoral fellow in African Feminist Imagination at The Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His published works look at issues relating to postcolonial femininities as they emerge in popular culture spaces in the global south.