LEADER 04370nam 22008535 450 001 996509971603316 005 20231121051247.0 010 $a1-4875-4179-1 010 $a1-4875-4906-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487549060 035 $a(CKB)25548877300041 035 $a(DE-B1597)647589 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487549060 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7151466 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7151466 035 $a(OCoLC)1354208035 035 $a(OCoLC)1355226762 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30373981 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30373981 035 $a(OCoLC)1337157025 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_109458 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925548877300041 100 $a20230228h20222022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOnscreen/Offscreen /$fConstantine V. Nakassis 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (400 p.) $c40 colour illustrations, 2 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables 225 0 $aStudies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life 311 $a9781487541774 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Transliteration, Quotation, Names, and Transcripts -- $tIntroduction: Ontological Politics of the Image -- $tPART ONE Presence/Representation -- $tChapter One. The Hero's Mass -- $tChapter Two. The Heroine's Stigma -- $tPART TWO Representation/Presence -- $tChapter Three. The Politics of Parody -- $tChapter Four. The Politics of the Real -- $tConclusions: Ends and Openings -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $a"Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over the question ?what is an image?? Answers to this question may be found in the ontological politics that take place on film sets, in theatre halls, and in the social fabric of everyday life in South India, from populist electoral politics and the gendering of social space to caste uplift and domination. Bridging and synthesizing linguistic anthropology, film studies, visual studies, and media anthropology, Onscreen/Offscreen rethinks key issues across a number of fields concerned with the semiotic constitution of social life, from the performativity and ontology of images to questions of spectatorship, realism, and presence. In doing so, it offers both a challenge to any approach that would separate image from social context and a new vision for linguistic anthropology beyond the question of ?language.?"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aStudies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life 606 $aMotion picture industry$zIndia$zTamil Nadu 606 $aMotion pictures and language$zIndia$zTamil Nadu 606 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$zIndia$zTamil Nadu 606 $aMotion pictures$xSemiotics$zIndia$zTamil Nadu 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zIndia$zTamil Nadu 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$2bisacsh 607 $aIndia$zTamil Nadu$2fast 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aSouth Asia film. 610 $aTamil Nadu. 610 $aTamil. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $acaste in Indian film. 610 $acinema. 610 $agender in Indian film. 610 $aimage. 610 $aontological. 610 $aontology. 610 $aperformativity. 610 $apoliticsIndian film. 610 $asemiotics. 615 0$aMotion picture industry 615 0$aMotion pictures and language 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSemiotics 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. 676 $a791.4364 700 $aNakassis$b Constantine V. , $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01350538 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996509971603316 996 $aOnscreen$93088763 997 $aUNISA