Preminda Jacob

Celluloid Deities

The Visual Culture of Cinema and Politics in South India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses attention on an aspect of India's dynamic and vibrant street art: billboard size advertisements, hand-painted for the entertainment cinema industry and local political parties, that unfurl mural-like across the urban landscape of Chennai, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. The making and consuming of this public art engenders a space for relay between film celebrities and political figures based on a visual cultural discourse of charisma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780739110607
• ISBN-10: 0739110608
• Artikelnr.: 24886317

Autorenporträt

By Preminda Jacob

Inhaltsangabe

1 Table of Contents 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: Of Painters,
Politicians, and Film Stars Chapter 4 1. Chennai's Banner Industry Artists
and their Methods Chapter 5 2. Cooperation and Conflict in Chennai's Visual
Culture: Financiers, Artists and Their Audiences Chapter 6 3. Tamil Cinema:
History, Celebrities, Genres Chapter 7 4. Cine Signs: Semiotics of
Chennai's Cinema Banners Chapter 8 5. The Coalescence of Tamil Nationalism
and the Cinema Industry Chapter 9 6. The Political Cutout: Celebrity and
Cult in Tamil Nadu Chapter 10 7. Darshan and Cinematic Spectatorship
Chapter 11 8. The Future of Chennai's Visual Culture 12 Bibliography 13
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