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The melodramatic public : film form and spectatorship in Indian cinema / Ravi Vasudevan

By: Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: xvii, 457 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9788178244556
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430954 VAS
Contents:
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.
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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.