ISBN:
0415396808
,
9780415396806
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 201 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge media, culture and social change in Asia 14
Parallel Title:
Print version Tamil Cinema : The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry
DDC:
302.23/43095482
Keywords:
Motion pictures
;
Motion pictures Social aspects
;
Motion picture industry
Abstract:
This book examines Tamil cinema, which has recently overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output, outlining its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important themes such as gender, religion, class, caste, fandom, cinematic genre, the politics of identity and diaspora
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The cultural history and politics of South Indian Tamil cinema; 1 A good woman, a very good woman: Tamil cinema's women; 2 The Tamil film heroine: From a passive subject to a pleasurable object; 3 Bringing the Amman into presence in Tamil cinema: Cinema spectatorship as sensuous apprehension; 4 Politics and the film in Tamil Nadu: The stars and the DMK; 5 The nurturing hero: Changing images of MGR; 6 Tamil cinema in the public sphere: The evolving art of banner advertisements in Chennai
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Encountering a new art: Writers' response to cinema in Tamil Nadu8 Cinema in the countryside: Popular Tamil film and the remaking of rural life; 9 Imaginary geographies: The makings of the ''south'' in contemporary Tamil cinema; 10 Encounters with 'India': (Ethno)-nationalism in Tamil cinema Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham; 11 The diaspora and the global circulation of Tamil cinema; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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