Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry

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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 7 Encountering a new art: Writers’ response to cinema in Tamil Nadu 8 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