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Tom Cruise was one of the most financially successful stars of the 1980s and 1990s and remains an important Hollywood player. In his time at Paramount, he negotiated new deals which redefined how stars earned revenue from their films. Yet little substantial study has been made o…

Situating Tamil Cinema interrogates contemporary Tamil cinema’s relationship with the shifting meanings of world cinema as an emergent organizing principle of film studies. Specifically, the dissertation studies the reconfiguration of the narrative modes of Tamil cinema in the c…