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Popular cinema and politics in South India : reimagining MGR and Rajnikanth / S. Rajanayagam.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Routledge, 2015.Description: xxxi, 300 p. : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138822030 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 791.43095482 RAJ 007036
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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