[Linganth] on CaMP anthropology blog - Costas Nakassis

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on CaMP anthropology blog, Costas Nakassis discusses his just
published book, Onscreen/Offscreen with Chris Ball.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South
Indian state of Tamil Nadu, *Onscreen/Offscreen *is an exploration of the
politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside
and outside the Tamil film industry over the question "what is an image?"
Answers to this question may be found in the ontological politics that take
place on film sets, in theatre halls, and in the social fabric of everyday
life in South India, from populist electoral politics and the gendering of
social space to caste uplift and domination.


Bridging and synthesizing linguistic anthropology, film studies, visual
studies, and media anthropology, *Onscreen/Offscreen* rethinks key issues
across a number of fields concerned with the semiotic constitution of
social life, from the performativity and ontology of images to questions of
spectatorship, realism, and presence. In doing so, it offers both a
challenge to any approach that would separate image from social context and
a new vision for linguistic anthropology beyond the question of "language."
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