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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Ravi S. Vasudevan is at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
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FOR CRITICS IN both colonial and independent India, film censorship has deservedly been an important and persistent problem throughout this century which continues to be the subject of lively debate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
touring cinemas, touring cinema companies, feudal family romance, fan assertion, psychotic hero, avenging women, rustic hero, social film, avenging woman, fan activity, narrative contract, formal subsumption, cinema hall, popular cinema, real subsumption, actual viewer, cinematic institution, cinema exhibition, film exhibition, melodramatic mode, electrical inspector, exhibition practices, reading competence, film censorship, commercial cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tamil Nadu, New Delhi, Mani Ratnam, Harano Sur, Censor Board, New York, Ravi Vasudevan, Madhava Prasad, Maud Allen, Commissioner of Police, Peter Brooks, Police Lock-up, Andhra Pradesh, Kobita Sarkar, Christine Gledhill, Das Gupta, Home Secretary, Self-Respect Movement, Central Board of Film Censors, Dravidar Kazhagam, Fredric Jameson, Old Nativity Film, Oxford University Press, Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar New!
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FOR CRITICS IN both colonial and independent India, film censorship has deservedly been an important and persistent problem throughout this century which continues to be the subject of lively debate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
touring cinemas, touring cinema companies, feudal family romance, fan assertion, psychotic hero, avenging women, rustic hero, social film, avenging woman, fan activity, narrative contract, formal subsumption, cinema hall, popular cinema, real subsumption, actual viewer, cinematic institution, cinema exhibition, film exhibition, melodramatic mode, electrical inspector, exhibition practices, reading competence, film censorship, commercial cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tamil Nadu, New Delhi, Mani Ratnam, Harano Sur, Censor Board, New York, Ravi Vasudevan, Madhava Prasad, Maud Allen, Commissioner of Police, Peter Brooks, Police Lock-up, Andhra Pradesh, Kobita Sarkar, Christine Gledhill, Das Gupta, Home Secretary, Self-Respect Movement, Central Board of Film Censors, Dravidar Kazhagam, Fredric Jameson, Old Nativity Film, Oxford University Press, Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar New!
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- The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess by Professor Peter Brooks on 4 pages
- Stardom: Industry of Desire by Christine Gledhill on page 142, page 190, and page 262
- The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960 by David Bordwell in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 119
- The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin on page 239, page 251, and page 264
- Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes on page 119, and page 263
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- Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Perverse Modernities) by Gayatri Gopinath on 4 pages
- Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India by Priya Jaikumar in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire by Vijay Mishra in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rethinking Third Cinema by Anthony R. Guneratne on page 224
- Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies) by Pascale Aebischer on page 55
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