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The Politics of Adulation: Cinema and the Production of Politicians in South India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Sara Dickey
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Popular south Indian cinema is a highly melodramatic entertainment form, plotted around improbable twists of fate and set in exaggerated locales, filled with songs, dances, and fight scenes. Patronized primarily by the poor, it is typically dismissed by critics, who find its vast popularity either bemusing or indicative of viewers moral and intellectual degradation. Even more confounding for many observers has been cinema's critical role in state and national politics.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , May 1993 , pp. 340 - 372
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993

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