Seduced by the Familiar

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

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

Reihe: Oxford India Paperbacks

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

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.