Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction: Stars, Styles, Society and Spectacle

pp 1-12

Part 1 - Bollywood and Celebrity

pp 13-14

1 - Victims, Bollywood and the Construction of a Cele-Meme

pp 15-32

2 - Brand Bollywood Care: Celebrity, Charity and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism

pp 33-50

3 - Celebrity, Charisma, and Post-truth Relations: Agnogenesis, Affect, and Bollywood

pp 51-64

Part 2 - Celebrity and Lifewriting

pp 65-66

4 - What the Stars Tell: Celebrity Lifewriting in India

pp 67-74

5 - Biopics

pp 75-82

6 - Bollywood Stars and Cancer Memoirs

pp 83-90

Part 3 - Celebrity, Culture and Politics

pp 91-92

7 - Indian Writing in English as Celebrity

pp 93-106

8 - Watery Friction: The River Narmada, Celebrity, and New Grammars of Protest

pp 107-130

9 - Mobility and Insurgent Celebrityhood: The Case of Arundhati Roy

pp 131-144

10 - Desecration and the Politics of ‘Image Pollution’: Ambedkar Statues and the ‘Sculptural Encounter’ in India

pp 145-156

11 - Authors, Self-Fashioning and Online Cultural Production in the Age of Hindu Celevision

pp 157-174

Index

pp 175-177