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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series |
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Media, culture, and social change in Asia series.
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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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Print version record |
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Motion picture industry.
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Arts.
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Social sciences.
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Sport and Recreation
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Motion picture industry -- India -- Tamil Nadu
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Motion pictures -- India -- Tamil Nadu
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu
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Social Sciences
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social sciences.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Arts
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Motion picture industry
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Social sciences
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India -- Tamil Nadu
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203930373 |
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0203930371 |
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1281313645 |
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9781281313645 |
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