Revising World Cinema through Tamil Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22240171 |
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| Authors | Amrutha Kunapulli (0009-0008-6996-025X, Wofford College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 185-207 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in World Cinema (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2665-9883 • E-ISSN: 2665-9891 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/26659891-bja10009 |
| OpenAlex | W4221035461 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
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 conceptions of world cinema as a category are not entirely suitable to the study of Tamil cinema. By studying examples from twenty-first century Tamil cinema, I propose a revised definition of world cinema, and the associated process of ‘worlding,’ that would expand and revise the parameters of world cinema, and film studies writ large
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · National cinema · Sociology · Tamil · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · South Asian Cinema and Culture
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What Is a World?
The Mass Production of the Senses
Cinema of Interruptions
Transnational Korean Cinema
Unthinking Eurocentrism
Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
The 1970s Tamil cinema and the post-classical turn
Framing the neo-noir in contemporary Tamil Cinema
Hong Kong action film in the Indian B circuit
In and out
Bollyworld
African Video Movies and Global Desires
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
| Highly cited | No |
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