Hyderabad: A book titled “Essays in Celebrity Culture” by Prof. Pramod K Nayar, Professor at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad(UoH) has been recently published by the Anthem Press.
Essays in Celebrity Culture is a full-length study of Indian celebrity culture, including fandom, celebrity philanthropy and celebrity activism, which are established features of life today and which constitute a major component of pop culture’s coverage of sports/film stars.
The collection moves from the largest domain of celebrity culture in India – Bollywood – through celebrity life writing and biopics and, finally, to the politics of and by celebrity culture. The book begins with an exploration of films made around women celebrity victims and goes on to show how the vernacular cosmopolitanism of philanthropic and humanitarian work.
Later, essays in the volume at the intersection of celebrity Dom and celebrity politics, from River Narmada as celebrity through Arundhati Roy, the desecration of statues to online self-fashioning by Indian writers.
Prof. Nayar an alumnus and also presently teaching at University of Hyderabad, is the only Indian to be on the editorial team of 300 year old, BRILL Publishing House, and joins Global Research Project on Surveillance.(UNI)