Seduced by the Familiar

Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-945630-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the "popular" in Indian cinema, M.K. Raghavendra undertakes, in this book, a chronological study of films to speculate on narrative conventions, thematic continuities, myths, archetypes, and other formal structures that inform it from its hesitant beginnings up to the 1990s. A significant contribution to film studies, the book makes crucial connections between film motifs and other aspects of culture, exploring the development of film narrative using the social history of India as a continuing frame of reference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raghavendra, M. K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Narrative Convention and Form

- 2: Indian Cinema Before 1947: In Search of a Definition

- 3: The First Years of Independence: Birth of a Nation

- 4: The 1950s and 1960s: The Idea of 'India'

- 5: The 1970s: Crosscurrents

- 6: The Furious 1980s: Undermining the Nation State

- 7: Towards the New Millennium: The End of Conflict

- 8: A Conclusion

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Film Index

- General Index

- About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

M.K. Raghavendra is a film critic, researcher, and scholar. He was the recipient of the National Film Award for the Best Film Critic, The Swarna Kamal in 1997.