Book Review “Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence inSouth India, by M. Madhava Prasad”. In “South Asia” 2018.

Review of Madhava Prasad s 2014 book seems now more than ever Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity star system took hold, and this star persona system now acts like a contagion. In the past, and consistent with melodrama, the fragmentary and episodic form of... Continue Reading