The Melodramatic Public [electronic resource] : Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema /
Vasudevan, R.author.
What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan addresses these questions in a wide-ranging analysis of Indian cinema.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan addresses these questions in a wide-ranging analysis of Indian cinema.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Oriental literature.
Motion pictures and television.
Theater.
Communication.
Film History.
Directing.
Asian Literature.
Screen Studies.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Media Studies.