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| Author | : Sowmya Dechamma C. C. |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : India |
| ISBN | : 9780198067955 |
Charting a new approach for understanding cinemas of south India, theessays in this volume broadly focus on Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil,and Telugu films and address wide-ranging issues including identitypolitics, minority discourse, remakes, and gender politics.
| Author | : Biswal, Santosh Kumar |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2020-06-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1799835138 |
Cinema in India is an entertainment medium that is interwoven into society and culture at large. It is clearly evident that continuous struggle and conflict at the personal as well as societal levels is depicted in cinema in India. It has become a reflection of society both in negative and positive ways. Hence, cinema has become an influential factor and one of the largest mass communication mediums in the nation. Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema is an essential reference source that discusses cultural and societal issues including caste, gender, oppression, and social movements through cinema and particularly in specific language cinema and culture. Featuring research on topics such as Bollywood, film studies, and gender equality, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, film studies students, and industry professionals seeking coverage on various aspects of regional cinema in India.
| Author | : Sara Dickey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007-09-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521040075 |
This study of the Indian cinema is concerned particularly with cinema-goers in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. Sara Dickey reviews the history of Tamil film, explains the structure of the industry, and presents the perspective of the filmmakers. However, the core of the book is an analysis of the films themselves and the place they have in the lives of poor people, who organize fan clubs, discuss the films and the actors, and in various ways relate these fantasy worlds to their own lives. Dickey argues that the effect of these films is ultimately conservative, for they glorify poverty while holding out the hope of a better future. Her rich ethnography makes an interesting contribution to the study of film in India and, more generally, to the understanding of popular culture in an Indian city.
| Author | : Selvaraj Velayutham |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2008-04-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134154453 |
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.
| Author | : S. Rajanayagam |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2015-06-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317587731 |
This work breaks new ground in the understanding of South Indian cinema and politics. Through incisive analysis and original concepts it illustrates the private, public and cinematic personas of MGR and Rajinikanth. It challenges the popular and scholarly myths surrounding them and shows the constant negotiation of their on-screen and off-screen identities. The book revisits the entire political history of post-Independent Tamil Nadu through its cinema,and presents a refreshing psycho-political and cultural map of contemporary South India. This absorbing volume will be an important read for scholars, teachers and students of film studies, culture and media studies, and politics, especially those interested in South India.
| Author | : M. K. Raghavendra |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Motion picture industry |
| ISBN | : 9789352645695 |
While 'Indian popular cinema', as if by default, has come to mean Bollywood, there are other cinemas in India which are at least as rewarding to study, the largest and perhaps most intriguing among them coming from South India. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada cinemas have their own colourful histories, megastars and political trajectories. This anthology is an attempt to do justice to the bewildering variety there is in the body as a whole and addresses this diversity in the only way deemed possible, which is to open out the study to different approaches, at the same time to get a comprehensive look at South Indian cinema as never before undertaken.
| Author | : Richard Armand Frasca |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
A study of the ritual reenactment of part of the Mahabharata epic as performed in the Tontaimantalam region of Tamil-speaking southern India. Frasca (religion, U. of California, Davis) explores the 2000-year history, the troupes, the literary corpus, performance techniques, and the significance to the place of performance. Includes a glossary without pronunciation, photographs, diagrams, and maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Sudhir Mahadevan |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1438458304 |
In A Very Old Machine, Sudhir Mahadevan shows how Indian cinema's many origins in the technologies and practices of the nineteenth century continue to play a vital and broad function in its twenty-first-century present. He proposes that there has never been a singular cinema in India; rather, Indian cinema has been a multifaceted phenomenon that was (and is) understood, experienced, and present in everyday life in myriad ways. Employing methods of media archaeology, close textual analysis, archival research, and cultural theory, Mahadevan digs into the history of photography, print media, practices of piracy and showmanship, and contemporary everyday imaginations of the cinema to offer an understanding of how the cinema came to be such a dominant force of culture in India. The result is an open-ended and innovative account of Indian cinema's "many origins."
| Author | : Lakshmi Srinivas |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2016-08-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 022636173X |
India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted an influence that extends from clothing trends to music tastes to everyday conversations, which are peppered with dialogue quotes. With House Full, Lakshmi Srinivas takes readers deep into the moviegoing experience in India, showing us what it’s actually like to line up for a hot ticket and see a movie in a jam-packed theater with more than a thousand seats. Building her account on countless trips to the cinema and hundreds of hours of conversation with film audiences, fans, and industry insiders, Srinivas brings the moviegoing experience to life, revealing a kind of audience that, far from passively consuming the images on the screen, is actively engaged with them. People talk, shout, whistle, cheer; others sing along, mimic, or dance; at times audiences even bring some of the ritual practices of Hindu worship into the cinema, propitiating the stars onscreen with incense and camphor. The picture Srinivas paints of Indian filmgoing is immersive, fascinating, and deeply empathetic, giving us an unprecedented understanding of the audience’s lived experience—an aspect of Indian film studies that has been largely overlooked.
| Author | : Hari Krishnan |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2019-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0819578886 |
Received a special citation from The de la Torre Bueno© First Book Award Committee of the Dance Studies Association (2020). The book has been hailed as "an invaluable addition to the scholarship on Bharatanatyam." Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance. It addresses representations of dance in the cinema from an interdisciplinary, critical-historical perspective. The intertwined and symbiotic histories of these forms have never received serious scholarly attention. For the most part, historians of South Indian cinema have noted the presence of song and dance sequences in films, but have not historicized them with reference to the simultaneous revival of dance culture among the middle-class in this region. In a parallel manner, historians of dance have excluded deliberations on the influence of cinema in the making of the "classical" forms of modern India. Although the book primarily focuses on the period between the late 1920s and 1950s, it also addresses the persistence of these mid-twentieth century cultural developments into the present. The book rethinks the history of Bharatanatyam in the twentieth century from an interdisciplinary, transmedia standpoint and features 130 archival images.
