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.