Between Ooru , Area, and Pettai
The Terms of the Local in Tamil Cinema of the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12424340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nitya Vasudevan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-172 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-3710377 |
| OpenAlex | W2588569861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article focuses on films that star the young Tamil cinema actor Dhanush and that are set in Madurai and surrounding nonmetropolitan locations in the state of Tamil Nadu. Through these films, the article examines the construct of the area or the pettai as a production of the local in the age of so-called globalization, and what implications this formation has for an understanding of the relationship between cinema and space in the context of Tamil films produced in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This construct of the pettai is viewed through questions on regionality, globalization, mobility, and gender, in an effort to understand the contemporariness of these films
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Construct (python library · Context (archaeology · Geography · Globalization · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Sociology · Tamil · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |