Worlding Tamil Cinema

Worlding Tamil Cinema is a simultaneous intervention in the study of world cinema and the cinemas of India.

With a focus on the globalising impulses of twenty-first-century Tamil cinema, the book explores the relationship between cinema, state, nationhood, and world cinema in the twenty-first century. On the one hand, the book argues for the limitations of studying Tamil cinema as "Indian" cinema by laying out the politics of nation, region, cinema, and statehood that have affected the cinem...