(Ebook) Tâmìḻ cinema : the cultural politics of India's other film industry by edited by Selvaraj Velayutham. ISBN 9780203930373, 0203930371

(Ebook) Tâmìḻ cinema : the cultural politics of India's other film industry by edited by Selvaraj Velayutham. ISBN 9780203930373, 0203930371

The cultural history and politics of South Indian Tâmìḻ cinema / Selvaraj Velayutham --
A good woman, a very good woman : Tâmìḻ cinema's women / C.S. Lakshmi --
The Tâmìḻ film heroine : from a passive subject to a pleasurable object / Sathiavathi Chinniah --
Bringing the Amman into presence in Tâmìḻ cinema : cinema spectatorship as sensuous apprehension / Kalpana Ram --
Politics and the film in Tâmìḻ Nadu : the stars and the DMK / Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. --
The nurturing hero : changing images of MGR / Sara Dickey --
Tâmìḻ cinema in the public sphere : the evolving art of banner advertisements in Chennai / Preminda Jacob --
Encountering a new art : writers' response to cinema in Tâmìḻ Nadu / S. Theodore Baskaran --
Cinema in the countryside : popular Tâmìḻ film and the remaking of rural life / Anand Pandian --
Imaginary geographies : the makings of South in contemporary Tamil cinema / Rajan Krishnan --
Encounters with India : (ethno)-nationalism in Tâmìḻ cinema / Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham --
The diaspora and the global circulation of Tâmìḻ cinema / Selvaraj Velayutham.