Popular cinema and politics in South India :
Rajanayagam, S.,
Popular cinema and politics in South India : reimagining MGR and Rajnikanth / S. Rajanayagam. - New Delhi : Routledge, 2015. - xxxi, 300 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-288) and index.
pt. I Politics of Narrative
1.Assemblage Structure
2.Image
Building Devices
pt. II Politics of Body
3.Imaging Male Body
4.On Being a Mans Woman
5.Psycho
Cultural Mapping of Body
6.Double
Bodied Migrantcy
7.Wealth of Poverty
8.Dispensation of Justice
pt. III 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.
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.
9781138822030 (hbk.) Rs895.00
2015306595
Rajinikant, 1950-
Rāmaccantiran̲, Em. Ji., 1917-1987.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--India--Tamil Nadu.
Motion pictures--History.--India--Tamil Nadu
Actors--India.
791.43095482 RAJ / 007036
Popular cinema and politics in South India : reimagining MGR and Rajnikanth / S. Rajanayagam. - New Delhi : Routledge, 2015. - xxxi, 300 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-288) and index.
pt. I Politics of Narrative
1.Assemblage Structure
2.Image
Building Devices
pt. II Politics of Body
3.Imaging Male Body
4.On Being a Mans Woman
5.Psycho
Cultural Mapping of Body
6.Double
Bodied Migrantcy
7.Wealth of Poverty
8.Dispensation of Justice
pt. III 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.
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.
9781138822030 (hbk.) Rs895.00
2015306595
Rajinikant, 1950-
Rāmaccantiran̲, Em. Ji., 1917-1987.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--India--Tamil Nadu.
Motion pictures--History.--India--Tamil Nadu
Actors--India.
791.43095482 RAJ / 007036