Tamil Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry
Redaktion: Velayutham, Selvaraj

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134154456
• Artikelnr.: 38455665

Autorenporträt

Selvaraj Velayutham works in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include migration, transnationalism, and Tamil cinema and cultural studies. He has published works on South Indian diaspora, home and belonging, and living with diversity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Cultural History and Politics of South Indian Tamil
Cinema Selvaraj Velayutham 1. A Good Woman, A Very Good Woman: Tamil
Cinema's Women C.S. Lakshmi 2. The Tamil Film Heroine: From a Passive
Subject to a Pleasurable Object Sathiavathi Chinniah 3. Presencing the
Amman in Tamil Cinema: Cinema Spectatorship as Sensuous Apprehension
Kalpana Ram 4. Politics and the Film in Tamil Nadu: The Stars and the DMK
Robert Hardgrave 5. The Nurturing Hero: Changing Images of MGR Sara Dickey
6. Tamil Cinema in the Public Sphere: The Evolving Art of Banner
Advertisements in Chennai Preminda Jacob 7. Encountering a New Art: Writers
Response to Cinema in Tamil Nadu Theodore Baskaran 8. Cinema in the
Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural Life Anand
Pandian 9. Imaginary Geographies: The Makings of 'South' in Contemporary
Tamil Cinema Rajan Krishnan 10. Encounters with 'India':
(Ethno)-Nationalism in Tamil Cinema Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham
11. The Diaspora and the Global Circulation of Tamil Cinema Selvaraj
Velayutham