| Description |
1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Series |
Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Ser |
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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Cinema, India, centenary -- Tamil cinema in the new millennium -- Thematic overview: continuities and changes -- References -- Part 1 Caste -- Chapter 1 Contested narratives: Filmic representations of North Chennai in contemporary Tamil cinema -- The city as a 'historical space' -- City in Tamil films -- The 'territorial stigmatisation' of North Chennai |
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Symbolic ghettoisation and the stigmatised neighbourhoods of North Chennai -- Destigmatising the territorial stigma -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Conscripts of cinema: The dangerous and deviant Third Wave -- The new Madurai genre -- The two waves and the conscripting Third Wave -- Beyond the 'type-hero' and the 'neo-nativity' film -- Dangerous and deviant heroes as conscripts of cinema -- Madurai in the Third Wave -- Conclusion -- Plot summaries -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Being Dalit, being Tamil: The politics of Kabali and Kaala -- Kabali's story1 |
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Detour: the absent Periyar in Kabali -- Reading Kabali -- Karikaalan, aka Kaala -- Kaala in and beyond the Dravidian framework -- Conclusion: Tamil becoming2 -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Gender -- Chapter 4 When Madhi dances like Dhanush: Gender representations in Irudhi Suttru -- Irudhi Suttru and the New Wave of women-centric films -- Is Irudhi Suttru a feminist manifesto? -- Vaa Machaney, an introduction kuthu song for the heroine -- Madhi, an angry young woman -- The gender trouble of a boxing heroine -- 'Who's the hero?': from flawed masculinity to male saviour |
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Conclusion: what is Madhi the name of? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Redefining the mass hero: The rise of the engineer as 'hero' in contemporary Tamil cinema -- Introduction -- The appearance of the mass hero in Tamil cinema: defining the paradigms of masculinity -- From mass hero to realist masculinity -- The evolution and meanings of technical education in Tamil Nadu -- The Tamil male engineer as a neoliberal subject: reading gendered behaviour -- Engineer heroes in Vaaranaram Ayiram, Nanban, and V.I.P |
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The neoliberal subjectivity of the contemporary mass hero: individuality, bromance, and the male body -- The male body: subverting traditional masculinity and the invention of new idioms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 White is the new brown: Constructing Amy Jackson as a desirable object in Tamil cinema -- The Westernised woman -- Complications: whiteness as an aesthetic of beauty -- Case study 1: Jackson as an aesthetic of beauty in Gethu (2016) -- Stigma and the appeal of a Caucasian female actor -- Case study 2: Thangamagan -- Jokes at the expense of Hema's Western-ness |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Devadas, Vijay
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| ISBN |
9780429520761 |
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042952076X |
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