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Cinemas of South India: Culture, Resistance, Ideology

Door Sowmya Dechamma e.a.

Categorie
Film, Cinema & TV
Boeknummer
#389598-UI14
Titel
Cinemas of South India: Culture, Resistance, Ideology
Auteur
Dechamma, Sowmya & Elavarthi Sathya Prakash
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
019806795x
ISBN13
9780198067955
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
This book looks at the different ways in which cinema from south India is organized and structured. Broadly focusing on Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu films, the essays explore the different ideologies within the tradition of films, film industries, and 'filmwoods'. How these ideologies within and outside the contexts of film industries construct ideas and images of identity related to language, gender, region, and politics among others? How these in turn are very entrenched in notions of 'culture'? These are among several other questions the contributors--established theoreticians of film studies and emerging scholars--address. Locating the debate away from the Bollywood/Hindi cinema-nation framework, the volume suggests that a single framework or a framework that polarizes Hindi c... (Lees verder)inema and 'other' cinemas is too narrow for studying cinemas of India. The Introduction by Sathya Prakash and Sowmya Dechamma looks at all these issues and reviews existing studies on cinemas of south India.
Pagina's
218
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 50,00

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