[csaa-forum] Sydney Screen Studies Network Seminar: Vellaikkaariya? – Constructing Amy Jackson, Nativity and Whiteness in Tamil Cinema with Meenaatchi Saverimuttu

[Adam Daniel]

View this email in your browser<http://mailchi.mp/afcdea899f64/kv6kfvoa2r-904989?e=bd521d017c>



[https://gallery.mailchimp.com/874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472/images/1d4e43f0-fa0c-410d-a0af-c3b0fc01c60a.jpg]

[https://gallery.mailchimp.com/874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472/images/fefa7422-6c2b-4376-a168-3af827343a78.jpg]



Vellaikkaariya? – Constructing Amy Jackson, Nativity and Whiteness in Tamil Cinema

Tuesday 1st August, 5pm - 7.30pm
Room 327, Robert Webster Building, UNSW Kensington Campus

Since Liverpool local Amy Jackson’s debut in 2010, where she played a young British woman in the Tamil period-drama Madrasapattinam (Vijay), Jackson has played exclusively Tamil/Indian characters in all of her films. Despite her Caucasian background, Jackson is nativised for these roles, her skin spray-tanned, her hair dyed, and her blue eyes hidden behind dark-brown contact lenses. More baffling is perhaps the recurrent in-film references to Jackson’s Tamil characters as white. I will focus my analysis on a recurring reference to Jackson’s characters as “the white chick” in two of Jackson’s more recent Tamil films Thangamagan (Velraj 2015) and Gethu (Thirukumaran 2016). These films position two vastly different Amy Jacksons: the on-screen Indian and the off-screen Westerner. This presentation uses the case of Jackson to explore the necessity for an interdisciplinary approach when discussing non-Western films. As such, this paper combines intersectional feminism, whiteness studies, and stardom studies alongside film theory in order to fully unpack the signification of Jackson’s on-screen presence.

Meenaatchi Saverimuttu is a postgraduate student at Macquarie University. Her research interests include film studies, gender studies, postcolonialism and representation studies. She is currently writing her M. Res. thesis on race and gender representations in the South Indian Tamil film industry.  meenaatchi.saverimuttu at students.mq.edu.au




Refreshments will be served during the seminar. All are welcome.

For further details on the Sydney Screen Studies program, please visit sydneyscreenstudies.wordpress.com<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=94e7d95999&e=bd521d017c>


[http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-facebook-48.png]<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=0429371bc0&e=bd521d017c>         Facebook<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=71a67391a7&e=bd521d017c>


[http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-twitter-48.png]<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=48a26f5aec&e=bd521d017c>         Twitter<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=a37ba5708a&e=bd521d017c>


[http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-link-48.png]<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=cb79d3f84d&e=bd521d017c>     Website<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=a4ba92922b&e=bd521d017c>


[http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-forwardtofriend-48.png]<mailto:sydneyscreenstudies@gmail.com>      Email<mailto:sydneyscreenstudies at gmail.com>








Copyright © 2017 Sydney Screen Studies Network, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you have joined the Sydney Screen Studies Network.

unsubscribe from this list<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=c26f64eb2c&e=bd521d017c&c=78e3510354>    update subscription preferences<http://wordpress.us10.list-manage.com/profile?u=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&id=c26f64eb2c&e=bd521d017c>

[Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monkey_rewards&aid=874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472&afl=1>





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20170725/b51b7dbf/attachment-0001.html