Understanding Indian Movies Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination

Name: Understanding Indian Movies Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
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ISBN: 9780292721678

ISBN-10: 0292721676

ISBN-13: 9780292721678

Edition: 2008

Authors: Patrick Colm Hogan

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Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons. In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and explication of culturally particular information about Indian history, Hindu metaphysics, Islamic spirituality, Sanskrit aesthetics, and other Indian traditions to provide necessary cultural contexts for understanding Indian films. Hogan analyzes eleven important films, using them as the focus to explore the topics of plot, theme, emotion, sound, and visual style in Indian cinema. These films draw…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 305
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of ten books, including Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists and The Mind and its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2003).