دانلود کتاب Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Caste, Gender, and Technology

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Cinema, India, centenary Tamil cinema in the new millennium Thematic overview: continuities and changes References Part 1 Caste Chapter 1 Contested narratives: Filmic representations of North Chennai in contemporary Tamil cinema The city as a ‘historical space’ City in Tamil films The ‘territorial stigmatisation’ of North Chennai Symbolic ghettoisation and the stigmatised neighbourhoods of North Chennai Destigmatising the territorial stigma Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2 Conscripts of cinema: The dangerous and deviant Third Wave The new Madurai genre The two waves and the conscripting Third Wave Beyond the ‘type-hero’ and the ‘neo-nativity’ film Dangerous and deviant heroes as conscripts of cinema Madurai in the Third Wave Conclusion Plot summaries Notes References Chapter 3 Being Dalit, being Tamil: The politics of Kabali and Kaala Kabali’s story1 Detour: the absent Periyar in Kabali Reading Kabali Karikaalan, aka Kaala Kaala in and beyond the Dravidian framework Conclusion: Tamil becoming2 Notes References Part 2 Gender Chapter 4 When Madhi dances like Dhanush: Gender representations in Irudhi Suttru Irudhi Suttru and the New Wave of women-centric films Is Irudhi Suttru a feminist manifesto? Vaa Machaney, an introduction kuthu song for the heroine Madhi, an angry young woman The gender trouble of a boxing heroine ‘Who’s the hero?’: from flawed masculinity to male saviour Conclusion: what is Madhi the name of? Notes References Chapter 5 Redefining the mass hero: The rise of the engineer as ‘hero’ in contemporary Tamil cinema Introduction The appearance of the mass hero in Tamil cinema: defining the paradigms of masculinity From mass hero to realist masculinity The evolution and meanings of technical education in Tamil Nadu The Tamil male engineer as a neoliberal subject: reading gendered behaviour Engineer heroes in Vaaranaram Ayiram, Nanban, and V.I.P. The neoliberal subjectivity of the contemporary mass hero: individuality, bromance, and the male body The male body: subverting traditional masculinity and the invention of new idioms Conclusion Notes References Chapter 6 White is the new brown: Constructing Amy Jackson as a desirable object in Tamil cinema The Westernised woman Complications: whiteness as an aesthetic of beauty Case study 1: Jackson as an aesthetic of beauty in Gethu (2016) Stigma and the appeal of a Caucasian female actor Case study 2: Thangamagan Jokes at the expense of Hema’s Western-ness Referencing Hema’s fundamental difference from the native hero Setting up the archetype for the traditional woman Intimacy as facilitated by Western-ness Notes References Chapter 7 Misogyny: A content analysis of break-up songs in Tamil films Introduction Songs in Tamil films Methods Findings Women’s bodies and objectification (Insincere women’s) love versus (sincere men’s) friendship Vilifying all women Conclusion and limitations Acknowledgement Notes References Chapter 8 Religiously middle class: Ammaṉ films and the new middle class in contemporary Tamil Nadu Ammaṉ films The middle class of Ammaṉ films Ammaṉ films as a pedagogical tool Ammaṉ films as a reflection of middle-class anxieties Conclusions Note References Part 3 Technology Chapter 9 Will the real Kollywood fan please stand up? : Tamil film fandom in the new millennium Fan club activity in the early 2000s Cinema spaces Loss The figure of the fan revisited New media, new desires? Notes References Chapter 10 Post-millennial Tamil cinema: Transitional generation and the traces of continuity The transitional generation The key signifiers of the transitional and markers of the contemporary Tamil cinema The hero and the family The transitional generation and traces of continuity The transitional generation and authorship Realism and relationships Conclusion References Chapter 11 A rumble in the movie halls: Cinema in the ‘orphaned’ state Introduction Cinema politics post-1990s2 Cinema politics in the ‘orphaned state’ The economics of Tamil cinema Conclusion Notes References Chapter 12 Tamil platform cinema Introduction YouTube India screen ecology Tamil screen ecology Tamil platform cinema Conclusion Notes References Index