Amrutha Kunapulli
Biographic Data
| ID | 6736696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amrutha Kunapulli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amrutha |
| FAMILY NAME | Kunapulli |
| SIGNATURE | KUNAPULLI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6996-025X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Madrasis and Meenakshi Sundareswars
Revising World Cinema through Tamil Cinema
This article situates Tamil cinema as world cinema, and interrogates current definitions of the field and category of world cinema from the perspective of twenty-first century Tamil cinema. In a discipline that has historically privileged national cinemas, the field of world cinema better facilitates the study of a sub-national film industry like Tamil cinema that has been overshadowed by the Hindi film industry in India. However, the current con…
Shero worship
Post-millennial Tamil cinema has seen a marked increase in casting women as protagonists or in pivotal roles. In a historically patriarchal industry that rests on an almost sycophantic male star system, this proliferation of women characters has proven significant in expanding the possibilities of female stardom. In turn, the potential of women stars and women’s narratives participates in and showcases the broader globalising impulses of Tamil ci…
Shero worship
Post-millennial Tamil cinema has seen a marked increase in casting women as protagonists or in pivotal roles. In a historically patriarchal industry that rests on an almost sycophantic male star system, this proliferation of women characters has proven significant in expanding the possibilities of female stardom. In turn, the potential of women stars and women’s narratives participates in and showcases the broader globalising impulses of Tamil ci…
Revising World Cinema through Tamil Cinema
This article situates Tamil cinema as world cinema, and interrogates current definitions of the field and category of world cinema from the perspective of twenty-first century Tamil cinema. In a discipline that has historically privileged national cinemas, the field of world cinema better facilitates the study of a sub-national film industry like Tamil cinema that has been overshadowed by the Hindi film industry in India. However, the current con…
Shero worship
Post-millennial Tamil cinema has seen a marked increase in casting women as protagonists or in pivotal roles. In a historically patriarchal industry that rests on an almost sycophantic male star system, this proliferation of women characters has proven significant in expanding the possibilities of female stardom. In turn, the potential of women stars and women’s narratives participates in and showcases the broader globalising impulses of Tamil ci…
Madrasis and Meenakshi Sundareswars
Art (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · Tamil (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Political science (2 works)