Onscreen/Offscreen /

"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...

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Main Author: Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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