Tamil Cinema

The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

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Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > India

Keywords

India, regional

Publishing date

2009

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

1st publishing

2008

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 218 pages
7 x 9 ½ inches (18 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-415-49219-5

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Book Presentation:
Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It outlines its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important themes such as gender, religion, class, caste, fandom, cinematic genre, the politics of identity and diaspora. Throughout, the book cogently links the analysis to wider social, political and cultural phenomena in Tamil and Indian society. Overall, it is an exciting and original contribution to an under-studied field, also facilitating a fresh consideration of the existing body of scholarship on Indian cinema.

About the Author:
Selvaraj Velayutham works in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include migration, transnationalism, and Tamil cinema and cultural studies. He has published works on South Indian diaspora, home and belonging, and living with diversity.

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