Tamil cinema : the cultural politics of India’s other film industry

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**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**