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Over the last century films havechanged the way we imagineourselves and experience theworld around us. But whathappens to life when the realworld begins to look and feel so much like the reel one? And whatabout those countless craftsmenwho make this happen toilingeach day to turn ordinarymoments into elements of acinematic world?For the last few years AnandPandian has trai Over the last century films havechanged the way we imagineourselves and experience theworld around us. But whathappens to life when the realworld begins to look and feel so much like the reel one? And whatabout those countless craftsmenwho make this happen toilingeach day to turn ordinarymoments into elements of acinematic world?For the last few years AnandPandian has trailed some ofthe most renowned figures inthe New Wave of contemporaryTamil cinema from the studiosof Chennai to Switzerland andKuala Lumpur. His grippingstories reveal how their filmscome together and sometimesfall apart--the pitched scriptsand rickety sets their stormyfights and digital marvels the joyof a hit tune and the heartbreakof box office disaster. Withan anthropologist s eye and acinephile s zeal Pandian vividlyconjures the frenzied highsand lows of this extraordinarycreative process. About the AuthorAnand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Crooked Stalks Cultivating Virtue in South India also published by Duke University Press.

Over the last century films havechanged the way we imagineourselves and experience theworld around us. But whathappens to life when the realworld begins to look and feel so much like the reel one? And whatabout those countless craftsmenwho make this happen toilingeach day to turn ordinarymoments into elements of acinematic world?For the last few years AnandPandian has trai Over the last century films havechanged the way we imagineourselves and experience theworld around us. But whathappens to life when the realworld begins to look and feel so much like the reel one? And whatabout those countless craftsmenwho make this happen toilingeach...  Read More