Cinematic ImagiNation Indian Popular Films As Social History

Name: Cinematic ImagiNation Indian Popular Films As Social History
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ISBN: 9780813531915

ISBN-10: 0813531918

ISBN-13: 9780813531915

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jyotika Virdi

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India produces more films than any other country and these works are consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by Indian communities across the world. This text focuses on how such a dominant media configures the 'nation' in post-Independence Hindi cinema.

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 3/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Nation and Its Discontents


The Nation, in Theory


The Creative ImagiNation


Theorizing National Cinema


Nation and Its Embodiments


Pleasure and Terror of the Feminine



The Idealized Woman


Fixing the Figure of the Woman


Woman, Community, Nation


The "Social Butterfly."



Heroes and Villains: Narrating the Nation


Masculinity


Heroes and Villains


Sons and Mothers



Heroines, Romance, and Social History


Reading Resistance


Contesting the Laxman Rekha


Film/Star Text: Reading Social Change



The Sexed Body


Filmic Love


Victims to Vigilantes


Rape and the Rape Threat


The Sexed Body and Specular Pleasure


Double-Speak about the Body


Unsettled Scores



Re-reading Romance


Transgressions of "True Love."


Reinstating "Family Values."


Romantic Love and the Culture of Consumption


The End of the Nehruvian Era


Conclusion


Notes


Index