Celluloid Deities - The Visual Culture of Cinema and Politics in South India

Informationen zum Autor Preminda Jacob is associate professor of art history and theory in the department of visual arts at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Klappentext This book focuses attention on an aspect of India's dynamic and vibrant street art: billboard size advertisements, hand-painted for the entertainment cinema industry and local political parties, that unfurl mural-like across the urban landscape of Chennai, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. The making and consuming of this public art engenders a space for relay between film celebrities and political figures based on a visual cultural discourse of charisma. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Table of Contents 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: Of Painters, Politicians, and Film Stars Chapter 4 1. Chennai's Banner Industry Artists and their Methods Chapter 5 2. Cooperation and Conflict in Chennai's Visual Culture: Financiers, Artists and Their Audiences Chapter 6 3. Tamil Cinema: History, Celebrities, Genres Chapter 7 4. Cine Signs: Semiotics of Chennai's Cinema Banners Chapter 8 5. The Coalescence of Tamil Nationalism and the Cinema Industry Chapter 9 6. The Political Cutout: Celebrity and Cult in Tamil Nadu Chapter 10 7. Darshan and Cinematic Spectatorship Chapter 11 8. The Future of Chennai's Visual Culture 12 Bibliography 13 About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Preminda Jacob
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2008
• EAN: 9780739110607
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1060-7
• No. of pages: 305
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / Popular Culture, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Advertising, Films, cinema, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Illustration & commercial art, Regional government, Regional / local / state government