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BROWN FACES GO WHITE Essays on Popular Culture of Tamil Nadu

Author Name: R KUMARAN | Format: Paperback | Genre : Educational & Professional | Other Details

Even though films in India occupy a special place evoking scholarly attention, their place in Tamil society is unique and has been fairly documented. The main purpose of this book is to analyse and understand the shift that is perceptible in the way personhood in Tamil films has been conceptualised. This book thus tries to account for the dramatic movement away from the way the concept of person was shown in Tamil films till recently to a surprisingly new way of deploying the concept of person as observable in the new spate of Tamil movies that have come out during the last decade of the 20th Century. While the old concept of person as seen through Tamil films, strictly adhered to the idioms and codes generated by Dravidian movement, the post 1990s Tamil Film heroes, break and violates these idioms and codes, and unveil a completely new person, whose significance, especially in the context of socio-economic-political changes of the globalisation phase, is the focus of this book.

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R KUMARAN

R. Kumaran is currently Director, Centre for Studies in Sociology, at the Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Science, Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed to be University. He has a combined 20 years of teaching and research experience, having taught at Post-Graduate level during most of his career. He has acquired his PG degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, while his M.Phil. in Sociology is from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. His Ph.D work is on Gandhian Approach to Development and Poverty, obtained from Gandhigram Rural University. His research interests are centred around media studies, formulating Gandhian Research Methodology for Social Sciences, positing native sociology tempered with indigenous social philosophers and thinkers such as M.K Gandhi and Ambedkar, and popularizing Public Sociology that brings the last human to the front stage, in true Gandhian Spirt. His publications too reflect his thrust areas of research with three of his five books and many of his research articles focussing on bringing marginalized people’s experiences to the centre-stage of social science epistemology.