S. Rajanayagam

Popular Cinema and Politics in South India

The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how public and cinematic personas merge in the political landscape of Tamil Nadu in India. Using the films of MGR and Rajinikanth, it reveals the intricate warp and the weft of political and cultural life of the Tamils, while examining Dravida identity, caste and language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138822030
• ISBN-10: 1138822035
• Artikelnr.: 41024668

Autorenporträt

S. Rajanayagam is Director, People Studies, Chennai; and Associate Professor, Department of Visual Communication, Loyola College, Chennai.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Popular as Political. Part 1: Politics of Narrative. 1.
Assemblage Structure 2. Image-Building Devices Part 2: Politics of Body 3.
Imaging Male Body 4. On Being a Man¿s Woman 5. Psycho-Cultural Mapping of
Body 6. Double Bodied Migrantcy 7. Wealth of Poverty 8. Dispensation of
Justice Part 3: Politics of Imaging Politics 9. Image and Imagining 10.
Politically-Loaded Octa-Motifs 11. Imaging by Tactexting 12. MGR: Politics
as Co-text 13. RK: Politics as Context 14. Cinelating Politiking 15.
Politics beyond Politics: Trans-Image Voting. Select Bibliography.