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Using a media-inclusive methodology, it combines semiotic, psychoanalytical, and feminist frameworks with sources such as fanzines, news coverage, gossip magazines, published film research, fan interviews, and fan-club case studies. The book connects cultural-literary roots with psycho-cultural mapping of body, narrative assemblages, and imaging strategies.","Popular Cinema and Politics in South India  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThe research methodologies of Dr Rajanayagam are exemplary for those who want to do in-depth research in the issues concerning the influences of cinema and its impacts on political, social, economic and cultural planes.  \n—S. Raguram  \nEastern University, Sri Lanka  \nThis book uses a media-inclusive approach to provide a comprehensive and brilliant semiotic, psychoanalytical, and feminist analysis of imagepoliticking of two dramatis personae of Thamizh film: MGR and Rajinikanth. Apart from deconstructing the most significant films of these two heroes, the book also uses several secondary sources such as fanzines, news articles, gossip magazines, published research on films, interviews with fans, and case studies of fan clubs to provide a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, multi-layer analysis.  \n—Srividya Ramasubramanian  \nTexas A&M University, USA  \nThe book delves into the cultural-literary roots of significant patterns observed in films; particularly, the psycho-cultural mapping of body and cultural tetrad are new to Thamizh/Indian film studies. I recommend this book especially to the media scholars and critics to derive inspiration and interest in the area of media and politics.  \n—Bernd Trocholepczy,  \nJohann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPopular Cinema and Politics in South India  \nReimagining MGR and Rajinikanth  \nS. Rajanayagam  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFirst published 2015 in India by Routledge  \n912 Tolstoy House, 15–17 Tolstoy Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001  \nSimultaneously published in the UK by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  \n© 2015 S. Rajanayagam  \nTypeset by  \nGlyph Graphics Private Limited  \n23 Khosla Complex Vasundhara Enclave Delhi 110 096  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nA catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978-1-138-82203-0  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nto  \nmy parents Salethammal  \nSalethu Pillai  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nFigures and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements  \nNote on Transliteration  \nIntroduction: Popular as Political  \nPart I: Politics of Narrative  \n1. Assemblage Structure  \n2. Image-Building Devices  \nPart II: Politics of Body  \n3. Imaging Male Body  \n4. On Being a Man’s Woman  \n5. Psycho-Cultural Mapping of Body  \n6. Double-Bodied Migrantcy  \n7. Wealth of Poverty  \n8. Dispensation of Justice  \nPart III: Politics of Imaging Politics  \n9. Image and Imagining  \n10. Politically Loaded Octa-Motifs  \n11. Imaging by Tactexting  \n12. MGR: Politics as Co-text  \n13. RK: Politics as Context  \n14. Cinelating Politiking  \n15. Politics Beyond Politics: Trans-Image Voting  \nFilmography Select Bibliography About the Author Index  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFIGURES AND TABLES  \nFigures  \n1.1 Hero-Centric Model of Dramatis Personae  \n2.1 Hierarchy of Villains  \n2.2 Hero–Villain Continuum  \n2.3 Double-Roles—An Analytical Model  \n2.4 On-Going Circulation of Cine Song Massaging  \n2.5 Tea-Stall Politiking  \n5.1 Women—A Cultural Tetrad  \n5.2 Male-Female Inter-Relationship  \n5.3 Mother Fixation—MGR  \n5.4 Mother Fixation—RK  \n6.1 Universification of Multiverse  \n6.2 Double-Bodied Migrantcy  \n7.1 Attitude Towards Wealth—General Pattern  \n7.2 Attitude Towards Wealth—Hero vis-à-vis Heroine  \n8.1 Justice—MGR’s Version  \n8.2 Justice—RK’s Version  \n8.3 Terrain Switching  \n9.1 Cinema Theatre as a Liminal Zone  \n9.2 Circles of Thiruvizhaa  \n9.3 Psycho-Pol","cbCaianZbJYbqKR4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaianZbJYbqKR4","pdf",3970800,1,344,"English","en",105,"# Introduction: Popular as Political\n## Part I: Politics of Narrative\n## Part II: Politics of Body\n## Part III: Politics of Imaging Politics\n# Part I: Politics of Narrative\n## 1. Assemblage Structure\n## 2. Image-Building Devices\n# Part II: Politics of Body\n## 3. Imaging Male Body\n## 4. On Being a Man’s Woman\n## 5. Psycho-Cultural Mapping of Body\n## 6. Double-Bodied Migrantcy\n## 7. Wealth of Poverty\n## 8. Dispensation of Justice\n# Part III: Politics of Imaging Politics\n## 9. Image and Imagining\n## 10. Politically Loaded Octa-Motifs\n## 11. Imaging by Tactexting\n## 12. MGR: Politics as Co-text\n## 13. RK: Politics as Context\n## 14. Cinelating Politiking\n## 15. 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