Volume 2, Issue 7

Just Another Film Industry: Tamil Cinema in Global India

Author

Author :Miss.Amrutha Kanapulli, PhD (in Progress), Michgan State University, East Lansing MI- 48824 USA

Abstract

Abstract: Tamil cinema in the twenty first century is marked by its twin desire to cater to an all-Indian audience, as well as to find visibility on the world cinema festival circuit. Both categories – the nation-state and the world – were integral facets of Tamil cinema’s history. They were almost always the “other,” the “outside,” and are thus met with similar means of engagement by twenty first century Tamil cinema filmmakers. This paper, through a detailing of three key events of Tamil Nadu and Tamil culture seeks to elucidate the differences and contiguities between the terms local, national, and global as they are represented in post-millennial Tamil cinema.

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