Preminda Jacob

Gebundenes Buch

Celluloid Deities

The Visual Culture of Cinema and Politics in South India

Beschreibung

This book focuses attention on an aspect of India's dynamic and vibrant street art: billboard size advertisements, hand-painted for the entertainment cinema industry and local political parties, that unfurl mural-like across the urban landscape of Chennai, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. The making and consuming of this public art engenders a space for relay between film celebrities and political figures based on a visual cultural discourse of charisma.

Autor

Preminda Jacob is associate professor of art history and theory in the department of visual arts at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780739110607
• ISBN-10: 0739110608
• Artikelnr.: 24886317