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In this imaginative and original work, Nakassis provides a radical new way of thinking about cinema, commodification, and style in Tamil youth culture. This is achieved through a close analysis of the performative work of citation how youths constantly borrow from film culture just as films themselves are pastiches of other films and ordinary life. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, the book demonstrates convincingly the cinematic quality of daily life and the endless play with identity that citation affords. --Brian Larkin, Columbia University

Nakassis analyses the creative tribulations of his young interviewees with warmth and sensitivity. --Brian Larkin, Columbia University Economic and Political Weekly

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Constantine V. Nakassis is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago.

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