Onscreen/Offscreen / Constantine V. Nakassis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakassis, Constantine V., Author.

Series:

Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--India--Tamil Nadu.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures and language--India--Tamil Nadu.

Motion pictures and language.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--India--Tamil Nadu.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Semiotics--India--Tamil Nadu.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--India--Tamil Nadu.

India--Tamil Nadu.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.) : 40 colour illustrations, 2 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2022.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

1-4875-4180-5

1-4875-4179-1

1-4875-4906-7

OCLC:

1354208035