Fingerprinting popular culture
Subtitle: the mythic and the iconic in Indian cinema
By: edited by Vinay Lal and Ashis Nandy.
Contributors: Lal, Vinay.; Nandy, Ashis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Delhi; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- India; Middle class -- India -- Attitudes; Ideology in motion pictures; Popular culture -- India; India -- In motion pictures
Description: Contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Popular cinema, India, and fantasy / Probal Dasgupta; title: Structure and form in Indian popular film narrative / M. K. Raghavendra; title: All kinds of Hindi : the evolving language of Hindi cinema / Harish Trivedi; title: The comic collapse of authority : an essay on the fears of the public spectator / D.R. Nagaraj; title: The voice of the nation and the five-year plan hero : speculations on gender, space, and popular culture / Sanjay Srivastava; title: The mapping of Guru Dutt's comedic vision / Darius Cooper.