TY - BOOK AU - Velayutham, Selvaraj, AU - Velayutham,Selvaraj AU - TI - Tamil cinema: the cultural politics of India's other film industry T2 - Routledge media, culture and social change in Asia SN - 9780415396806 (hc : alk. paper) U1 - 302.234 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Motion picture industry KW - Motion pictures KW - India KW - Tamil Nadu KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The cultural history and politics of South Indian Tamil cinema / Selvaraj Velayutham -- A good woman, a very good woman : Tamil cinema's women / C.S. Lakshmi -- The Tamil film heroine : from a passive subject to a pleasurable object / Sathiavathi Chinniah -- Bringing the Amman into presence in Tamil cinema : cinema spectatorship as sensuous apprehension / Kalpana Ram -- Politics and the film in Tamil Nadu : the stars and the DMK / Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. -- The nurturing hero : changing images of MGR / Sara Dickey -- Tamil cinema in the public sphere : the evolving art of banner advertisements in Chennai / Preminda Jacob -- Encountering a new art : writers' response to cinema in Tamil Nadu / S. Theodore Baskaran -- Cinema in the countryside : popular Tamil film and the remaking of rural life / Anand Pandian -- Imaginary geographies : the makings of South in contemporary Tamil cinema / Rajan Krishnan -- Encounters with India : (ethno)-nationalism in Tamil cinema / Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham -- The diaspora and the global circulation of Tamil cinema / Selvaraj Velayutham UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007036110.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2007036110-b.html ER -