Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Tamil Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A. Cinema as an aesthetic art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
B. Indian cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
C. Cinema in Tamil Nadu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Origins of Tamil Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A. Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
B. Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
C. Music in Tamil drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
D. Loud voice culture in Tamil cinema . . . . . . . 8
3. History of Tamil Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A. Extent of Tamil cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
B. A brief history of Tamil cinema . . . . . . . . . . . 9
C. Technology and industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
D. Kollywood: Center of the
Tamil cinema industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. Film Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. Cinema Production as Cultural Commodity
in Tamil Nadu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A. Socio-demographic factors in consumption . . 15
B. Visual culture as mass consumption . . . . . . . . 15
C. Youth as consumers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
D. Gender identities in cinema consumption . . . 16
7. Cinema and Social Change in Tamil Nadu . . . . . 17
A. Knowledge change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
B. Cinema technology and cultural change
in Tamil Nadu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
C. Cinema technology and political changes
in Tamil Nadu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8. Cinema and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A. Cultural identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
B. Religious identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
C. National identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
D. Cultural narrative in Tamil cinema . . . . . . . . 23
9. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Recommended Citation
Jesudoss, Perianayagam
(2009)
"Tamil Cinema,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 28:
No.
4, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol28/iss4/1
