Onscreen/Offscreen.

Nakassis, Constantine V.

Onscreen/Offscreen. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages) - Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life Series . - Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life Series .

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration, Quotation, Names, and Transcripts -- Introduction: Ontological Politics of the Image -- Part One: Presence/Representation -- 1 The Hero's Mass -- 2 The Heroine's Stigma -- Part Two: Representation/Presence -- 3 The Politics of Parody -- 4 The Politics of the Real -- Conclusions: Ends and Openings -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.

9781487549060


Electronic books.

791.43095482