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Celluloid deities : the visual culture of cinema and politics in South India /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2009.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008027140.html |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Of painters, politicians, and film stars
- Chennai's banner industry: artists and their methods
- Cooperation and conflict in Chennai's visual culture: financiers, artists and their audiences
- Tamil cinema: history, celebrities, genres
- Cine signs: semiotics of Chennai's cinema banners
- Coalescence of Tamil nationalism and the cinema industry
- Political cutout: celebrity and cult in Tamil Nadu
- Darshan and cinematic spectatorship
- Future of Chennai's visual culture.