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Onscreen/offscreen /

"Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over the question "what is an image?"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Colección:Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ontological Politics of the Image Introduction From Ontologies to Ontological Politics; Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Cinema A Brief History of Tamil Cinema; For a "Tamil" Cinema Realism and the Mass Hero; Overview of the Chapters Part I: Presence/Representation: 1. The Hero's Mass; 2. The Heroine's Stigma Part II: Representation/Presence: 3. The Politics of Parody; 4. The Politics of the Real Notes; Interviews and Works Cited; Index