The melodramatic public
Subtitle: film form and spectatorship in Indian cinema
By: Ravi Vasudevan
Publisher: Permanent Black; Distributed by Orient Blackswan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Raniket; Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9788178242620
Subjects: Melodrama in motion pictures; Motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-436) and index.
Table of contents: title: Melodramatic and other publics; title: pt. 2. Cinema and territorial imagination in the subcontinent : Tamilnadu and India; title: pt. 3. Melodrama mutated and differentiated : narrative form, urban vistas, and new publics in a history of the present.