<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Dear
CSAA colleagues,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">My
book, <i>Film and Politics in India: Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to
Political Power</i>, has been published recently through Peter Lang
International Academic Publishers (Switzerland). Please recommend it to your
local library.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Book
synopsis</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">In
the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since
1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of
Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less
studied, yet highly influential cinema in South Asia. Developing the concept of
the politics of sentiment, the author examines the ways in which
actor-politicians constructed their cinematic charisma, projecting themselves
as messiahs saving the people from injustices, to create a political appeal to
voters. The resilience of cinematic charisma, as Indian society undergoes
massive socio-economic changes, provides a compelling study of modern politics,
cinema, celebrity and the culture of the subcontinent.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a href="http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=82400&cid=539&concordeid=431551">http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=82400&cid=539&concordeid=431551</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Thank you very much.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Cheers,<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dhamu</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:sp.dhamu@gmail.com">sp.dhamu@gmail.com</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(54,95,145);font-size:11.5pt">================</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:11.5pt"></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:11.5pt">"Men can live without justice, and generally must, but they cannot live without hope." - Eric Hobsbawm</span></b><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black;font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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