Setting up the archetype for the traditional womanĬhapter 7 Misogyny: A content analysis of break-up songs in Tamil films Referencing Hema’s fundamental difference from the native hero
Jokes at the expense of Hema’s Western-ness Stigma and the appeal of a Caucasian female actor The male body: subverting traditional masculinity and the invention of new idiomsĬhapter 6 White is the new brown: Constructing Amy Jackson as a desirable object in Tamil cinemaĬomplications: whiteness as an aesthetic of beautyĬase study 1: Jackson as an aesthetic of beauty in Gethu (2016) The neoliberal subjectivity of the contemporary mass hero: individuality, bromance, and the male body The Tamil male engineer as a neoliberal subject: reading gendered behaviourĮngineer heroes in Vaaranaram Ayiram, Nanban, and V.I.P. The evolution and meanings of technical education in Tamil Nadu The appearance of the mass hero in Tamil cinema: defining the paradigms of masculinity
‘Who’s the hero?’: from flawed masculinity to male saviourĬhapter 5 Redefining the mass hero: The rise of the engineer as ‘hero’ in contemporary Tamil cinema Vaa Machaney, an introduction kuthu song for the heroine Irudhi Suttru and the New Wave of women-centric films Kaala in and beyond the Dravidian frameworkĬhapter 4 When Madhi dances like Dhanush: Gender representations in Irudhi Suttru The two waves and the conscripting Third Waveīeyond the ‘type-hero’ and the ‘neo-nativity’ filmĭangerous and deviant heroes as conscripts of cinemaĬhapter 3 Being Dalit, being Tamil: The politics of Kabali and Kaala Symbolic ghettoisation and the stigmatised neighbourhoods of North ChennaiĬhapter 2 Conscripts of cinema: The dangerous and deviant Third Wave The ‘territorial stigmatisation’ of North Chennai Thematic overview: continuities and changesĬhapter 1 Contested narratives: Filmic representations of North Chennai in contemporary Tamil cinema
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