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- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Book Title
- Onscreen/Offscreen
- Publication Name
- Onscreen/Offscreen
- Title
- Onscreen/Offscreen
- ISBN-10
- 1487541775
- EAN
- 9781487541774
- ISBN
- 9781487541774
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 05/01/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Genre
- Films & TV
- Subject
- Society & Culture
- Series
- Studies in the Anthropology of Language Sign Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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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."
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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1487541775
ISBN-13
9781487541774
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13067502539
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Onscreen/Offscreen
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Series
Studies in the Anthropology of Language Sign Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
0 Oz
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Pn1993.5.I8
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College Graduate Student
Reviews
"When is a movie not 'just a movie'? Onscreen/Offscreen explores the permeable boundaries between fiction film and real politics in Tamil culture, where movie stars become party leaders, and mass movements struggle to define themselves in a cine-politics of spectatorship amid struggles for power and identity. Constantine Nakassis brilliantly explores a complex field of images that are simultaneously representations and real presences, fictive and actual, pictures and performative actions. A crucial contribution to film studies and to contemporary anthropology." --W.J.T. Mitchell, author of Image Scienceand What Do Pictures Want? "By using the tools of semiotic anthropology to examine Tamil cinema, Onscreen/Offscreen models an incredibly innovativemethodology for understanding the cinematic image more broadly and in radically processual terms. Nakassis pursues the question of how images happen and for whom they happen across events, and in doing so he reaches brilliant insights into the gender politics of cinema and the potentials of realism when the power of the image always exceeds what has been recorded and what is projected onto the screen." --Francis Cody, Associate Professor of Anthropology and in the Asian Institute, University of Toronto "How can a slap onscreen threaten the life of an actor offscreen? This book is not only a passionate and detailed portrait of Tamil cinema and filmgoing, but also a theoretical meditation about images and their power. Thanks to vibrant analyses and striking case studies, superb ethnographic research becomes a crucial contribution to the current debate about visual media and their political implications." --Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies, Yale University "Applying the analytic strategies and methods of linguistic anthropology to film, Constantine Nakassis presents a comprehensive look at cinema as un fait social total . Far more than a deep dive into Tamil film history, Onscreen/Offscreen is a major contribution to cinema studies and the anthropology of images." --Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of New Mexico
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Quotation, Names, and Transcripts Introduction: Ontological Politics of the Image Introduction From Ontologies to Ontological Politics Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Cinema A Brief History of Tamil Cinema For a "Tamil" Cinema Realism and the Mass Hero Overview of the Chapters Part I: Presence/Representation 1. The Hero's Mass Introduction Presence of the Film Image Gravity of the Hero's Mass Presence of Mass Image-Act of the Slaps Sociological Realism of the Mass Hero's Image Aesthetic Realism and the Event of the Slaps Ambivalent Realisms Authorizing the Slaps, or the Principal of Animation Conclusion 2. The Heroine's Stigma Introduction Item's Interruption Item's Titillation Item's Spectacle Ontological Politics of Sexual Difference Actness of the Image Politics of Vision Explicitness of Performativity Voyeurism and Exhibitionism in 7/G Rainbow Colony Kinship Chronotopes and Sociological Traces of the Performativity of Presence Marriage and Not-to-be-looked-at-ness An Alien Presence Conclusion Epilogue Part II: Representation/Presence 3. The Politics of Parody Introduction Anti-Cine-Politics of Thamizh Padam A Politics of (Im/possible) Worlds Chronopolitics For Another Kind of Image For a Less Serious Industry A Politics of Production The Politics for an Image Conclusion 4. The Politics of the Real Introduction Questions of Realism Register of Realism Enregistering Realism in Tamil Cinema Kaadhal ("Love") Realism's Heroism This Is a True Story Representing Taboo Caste and Sexuality in Kaadhal Frustrated Textuality and Sexual Reference Production Format of Realism New Faces and the Director's Image Realism's Illiberal Extimacy and the Suspension of Belief Conclusion Conclusions An End of an Era Killing the Mass Hero Performativity Representation and the Method Theory of a Linguistic Anthropology of Cinema For a Linguistic Anthropology of ... Notes Interviews and Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2022
Topic
General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Dewey Decimal
791.43095482
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Performing Arts
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