Tamil cinema : the cultural politics of India's other film industry / edited by Selvaraj Velayutham
- Bib ID:
- 4466445
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- Book
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- London : Routledge, 2008
- xvi, 201 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780415396806
- 9780203930373
- Series:
- Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 14.
- Summary:
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Examines the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. Outlines the cinema's history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important themes such as gender and the portayal of women, religion, class and the politics of identity. S Velayutham, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
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- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Velayutham, Selvaraj, 1968-
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