| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in the anthropology of language, sign, and social life
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and language -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion pictures and language. |
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India -- Tamil Nadu. |
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics. |
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Motion picture industry -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
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Motion picture industry. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979- Onscreen/offscreen. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2023 1487541775 9781487541774 (OCoLC)1304814396 |
| ISBN |
9781487541804 (electronic book) |
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1487541805 (electronic book) |
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9781487541798 (electronic book) |
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1487541791 (electronic book) |
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9781487549060 (electronic book) |
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1487549067 (electronic book) |
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