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Politics As Performance- A Social History of the Telugu Cinema

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Item Code: UAD699
Author: S.V. Srinivas
Publisher: Permanent Black
Language: English
Edition: 2018
ISBN: 9788178245324
Pages: 450 (Throughout B/w Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.50 X 5.50 inch
Weight 440 gm
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About the Book
This book provides a picture of the Telugu cinema, as both industry and cultural form, over fifty formative years. It argues that films are directly related both to the prominence of elite which dominates Andhra Pradesh and other parts of India, and to the emergence of a new idiom of mass politics.

"This book provides a historical and theoretically informed perspective on how Telugu cinema was implicated in, and contributed to, the rise of a new ruling caste-class constellation, the emergence of the star-politician, and a new idiom of mass politics in the Andhra region ... It skillfully weaves strands of economic, political, and social history with film history and textual analysis"

"S.V. Srinivas's Politics as Performance is an ambitious historical account of the agrarian background, caste profile, and political functions of the Telugu film industry, including a sustained narrative of the rise of N.T. Rama Rao. An exemplary text of film industrial history and political analysis" RAVI VASUDEVAN "S.V. Srinivas's long awaited book on Telugu cinema, seen from the vantage point of movie star-politician N.T. Rama Rao's career, radically repositions the very concept of a star, and indeed that of the cinema, within modern politics ... provides a completely new frontier for the discipline of film studies"

"Unusually for these times, this is a work of film history that does not ignore the larger socio-economic realities of which any culture industry is a part. Indeed it seeks to demonstrate how the channels of mutual determination between socio-economic, political, and cultural instances work in practice. The Telugu film industry, one of the biggest in India, will now be assured of its place in Indian film history with Srinivas's comprehensive, interdisciplinary study"

About the Author
SRINIVAS is a Professor at the School of Liberal Studies. Aim Preemie University. Bangalore. He has been associated with the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society. Bangalore, and has held visiting positions at the National. University of Singapore. Georgetown University the Indian. Institute of Science and the University of Hyderabad. He is the author of Megastar (2009) and co-editor of a two-volume collection of essays titled The Indian Media Economy 2018.

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