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<strong>Vellaikkaariya? – Constructing Amy Jackson, Nativity and Whiteness in Tamil Cinema
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Since Liverpool local Amy Jackson’s debut in 2010, where she played a young British woman in the Tamil period-drama
<em>Madrasapattinam </em>(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
<em>Thangamagan</em> (Velraj 2015) and <em>Gethu (</em>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.<br>
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<strong>Meenaatchi Saverimuttu</strong> is a postgraduate student at <strong>Macquarie University.</strong> 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. <strong>
meenaatchi.saverimuttu@students.mq.edu.au</strong><br>
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