Onscreen/Offscreen / / Constantine V. Nakassis.
"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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 40 colour illustrations, 2 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration, Quotation, Names, and Transcripts
- Introduction: Ontological Politics of the Image
- PART ONE Presence/Representation
- Chapter One. The Hero's Mass
- Chapter Two. The Heroine's Stigma
- PART TWO Representation/Presence
- Chapter Three. The Politics of Parody
- Chapter Four. The Politics of the Real
- Conclusions: Ends and Openings
- Notes
- References
- Index