Being Bollywood
Postfeminism, Celebrity Culture and Femininity in the Global South
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
Published:15th Oct '23
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
ISBN: 9789819956999
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172 pages
2023 ed.