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Making meaning in Indian cinema / edited by Ravi S. Vasudevan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.Description: x, 317 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780195658675 (pbk.)
  • 0195658671 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Indian cinema
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 791.430954 MAK 007350
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Contents:
Introduction /​ Ravi S. Vasudevan I. The Sociology and Politics of the Cinematic Institution. 1. Policing Silent Film Exhibition in Colonial South India /​ Stephen P. Hughes. 2. Parasakthi: Life and Times of a DMK Film /​ M. S. S. Pandian II. The 1950s: Melodrama and the Paradigms of Cinematic Modernity. 3. Shifting Codes, Dissolving Identities: The Hindi Social Film of the 1950s as Popular Culture /​ Ravi S. Vasudevan. 4. The Couple and Their Spaces: Harano Sur as Melodrama Now /​ Moinak Biswas III. The Politics of Film Form in the Contemporary Era. 5. Signs of Ideological Re-form in Two Recent Films: Towards Real Subsumption? /​ M. Madhava Prasad. 6. Narrating Seduction: Vicissitudes of the Sexed Subject in Tamil Nativity Film /​ Sundar Kaali. 7. Kaadalan and the Politics of Resignification: Fashion, Violence and the Body /​ Vivek Dhareshwar and Tejaswini Niranjana. 8. Avenging Women in Indian Cinema /​ Lalitha Gopalan. 9. From Subjectification to Schizophrenia: The 'Angry Man' and the 'Psychotic' Hero of Bombay Cinema /​ Ranjani Mazumdar IV. Indian Film, Film Theory and Democracy. 10. Viewership and Democracy in the Cinema /​ Ashish Rajadhyaksha. 11. Devotion and Defiance in Fan Activity /​ S. V. Srinivas.
Summary: This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today to examine the phenomenon of popular Indian cinema from silent films to today's blockbusters. The articles explore the political implications of Indian popular cinema through formal and narrative analysis, archival resources and oral testimony, across a range of key films.
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Introduction /​ Ravi S. Vasudevan
I. The Sociology and Politics of the Cinematic Institution. 1. Policing Silent Film Exhibition in Colonial South India /​ Stephen P. Hughes. 2. Parasakthi: Life and Times of a DMK Film /​ M. S. S. Pandian
II. The 1950s: Melodrama and the Paradigms of Cinematic Modernity. 3. Shifting Codes, Dissolving Identities: The Hindi Social Film of the 1950s as Popular Culture /​ Ravi S. Vasudevan. 4. The Couple and Their Spaces: Harano Sur as Melodrama Now /​ Moinak Biswas
III. The Politics of Film Form in the Contemporary Era. 5. Signs of Ideological Re-form in Two Recent Films: Towards Real Subsumption? /​ M. Madhava Prasad. 6. Narrating Seduction: Vicissitudes of the Sexed Subject in Tamil Nativity Film /​ Sundar Kaali. 7. Kaadalan and the Politics of Resignification: Fashion, Violence and the Body /​ Vivek Dhareshwar and Tejaswini Niranjana. 8. Avenging Women in Indian Cinema /​ Lalitha Gopalan.
9. From Subjectification to Schizophrenia: The 'Angry Man' and the 'Psychotic' Hero of Bombay Cinema /​ Ranjani Mazumdar
IV. Indian Film, Film Theory and Democracy. 10. Viewership and Democracy in the Cinema /​ Ashish Rajadhyaksha. 11. Devotion and Defiance in Fan Activity /​ S. V. Srinivas.

This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today to examine the phenomenon of popular Indian cinema from silent films to today's blockbusters. The articles explore the political implications of Indian popular cinema through formal and narrative analysis, archival resources and oral testimony, across a range of key films.

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