The Melodramatic Public
Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
457 pages
978-1-349-59042-1 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan addresses these questions in a wide-ranging analysis of Indian cinema.
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Edition
2011 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-59042-1 (9781349590421)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-11812-6
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Content
Introduction The Melodramatic Public PART I: MELODRAMATIC AND OTHER PUBLICS Shifting Codes, Dissolving Identities: Realist Art Cinema Criticism and Popular Film Form The Politics of Cultural Address in a 'Transitional' Cinema Neither State Nor Faith: Mediating Sectarian Conflict in Popular Cinema A Modernist Public: The Double Take of Modernism in the Work of Satyajit Ray PART II: CINEMA AND TERRITORIAL IMAGINATION IN THE SUBCONTINENT: TAMILNADU AND INDIA Voice, Space, Form: the Symbolic and Territorial Itinerary of Mani Rathnams Roja (1992) Bombay (Mani Rathnam, 1995) and Its Publics Another History Rises to the Surface: Melodrama in the Age of Digital Simulation: Hey Ram! (Kamalahasan, 1999) PART III: MELODRAMA MUTATED AND DIFFERENTIATED: NARRATIVE FORM, URBAN VISTAS AND NEW PUBLICS IN A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema 19742003 The Contemporary Film Industry I: The Meanings of 'Bollywood' The Contemporary Film Industry II: Textual Form, Genre Diversity and Industrial Strategies Conclusion and Afterword