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Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation
By
Anand Pandian
Anand Pandian

Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India, also published by Duke University Press.

Walter Murch is an Academy Award–winning film editor and sound designer, and the author of In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375166
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7516-6
Publication date:
2015
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https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375166-018
  • Published:
    November 2015

This chapter examines the marketing and release of a Tamil film that proved a resounding flop, taking the rise and fall of expectation as a window into negotiations of fate in creative and commercial production.

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