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Cinemas of South India

Cinemas of South India Culture, Resistance, Ideology

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book looks at the different ways in which cinema from south India is organized and structured. Broadly focusing on Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu films, the essays explore the different ideologies within the tradition of films, film industries, and 'filmwoods'. How these ideologies within and outside the contexts of film industries construct ideas and images of identity related to language, gender, region, and politics among others? How these in turn are very entrenched in notions of 'culture'? These are among several other questions the contributors-established theoreticians of film studies emerging scholars-address. Locating the debate away from the Bollywood/Hindi cinema-nation framework, the volume suggests that a single framework or a framework that polarizes Hindi cinema and 'other' cinemas is too narrow for studying cinemas of India. The Introduction by Sathya Prakash and Sowmya Dechamma looks at all these issues and reviews existing studies on cinemas of south India.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780198067955
Publisher: OUP India
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.4309548
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 218
Weight: 433g
Height: 221mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 22mm