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National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

Door Sumita S. Chakravarty

Categorie
Film, Cinema & TV
Boeknummer
#389608-VG50
Titel
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987
Auteur
Chakravarty, Sumita S.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Austin : University of Texas Press
Jaar van uitgave
1993
ISBN10
0292711565
ISBN13
9780292711563
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original puple cloth, silver lettered spine, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema's characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ideological construction of Indian national identity. Informed by theoretical developments in film theory, cultural studies, postcolonial discourse, and “Third World” cinema, the book identifies the major genres and movements within Bombay cinema since Independence and uses them to enter larger cultural debates about questions of identity, authenticity, citizenship, and collectivity. Chak... (Lees verder)ravarty examines numerous films of the period, including Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965), Shri 420 [The gentleman cheat] (Raj Kapoor, 1955), and Bhumika [The role] (Shyam Benegal, 1977). She shows how “imperso-nation,” played out in masquerade and disguise, has characterized the representation of national identity in popular films, so that concerns and conflicts over class, communal, and regional differences are obsessively evoked, explored, and neutralized. These findings will be of interest to film and area specialists, as well as general readers in film studies.
Pagina's
341
Conditie
Goed — Dust jacket missing.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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