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1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life Ser. |
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Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life Ser.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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?" Answers to this question may be found in the ontological politics that take place on film sets, in theatre halls, and in the social fabric of everyday life in South India, from populist electoral politics and the gendering of social space to caste uplift and domination. Bridging and synthesizing linguistic anthropology, film studies, visual studies, and media anthropology, Onscreen/Offscreen rethinks key issues across a number of fields concerned with the semiotic constitution of social life, from the performativity and ontology of images to questions of spectatorship, realism, and presence. In doing so, it offers both a challenge to any approach that would separate image from social context and a new vision for linguistic anthropology beyond the question of "language.""-- Provided by publisher. |
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Open Access EbpS |
| Contents |
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 |
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Motion pictures and language -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion picture industry -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Cinéma et langage -- Inde -- Tamil Nadu.
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Sémiotique et cinéma -- Inde -- Tamil Nadu.
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Cinéma -- Aspect politique -- Inde -- Tamil Nadu.
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Cinéma -- Aspect social -- Inde -- Tamil Nadu.
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Cinéma -- Industrie -- Inde -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion picture industry
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Motion pictures and language
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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India -- Tamil Nadu
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRwcvG864WmV9rRqtpGB
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979- Onscreen/offscreen. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2023 1487541775 9781487541774 (OCoLC)1304814396 |
| ISBN |
9781487541804 (electronic bk.) |
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1487541805 (electronic bk.) |
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9781487541798 (electronic bk.) |
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1487541791 (electronic bk.) |
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9781487549060 (electronic bk.) |
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1487549067 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000073246303 |
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