Bringing out the transformation of the mainstream Hindi film after it became 'Bollywood', this book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It is devoted to analyses of important Hindi films in the new millennium and focuses on overt and covert political disc…
This book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It argues that with mainstream Hindi cinema becoming 'Bollywood' and the diaspora becoming a key commercial factor, the constituency addressed by the mainstream Hindi film has significantly changed. Consequent…
La quatrième de couverture indique : "This book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It argues that with mainstream Hindi cinema becoming 'Bollywood' and the diaspora becoming a key commercial factor, the constituency addressed by the mainstream Hindi film…
This book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It argues that with mainstream Hindi cinema becoming 'Bollywood' and the diaspora becoming a key commercial factor, the constituency addressed by the mainstream Hindi film has significantly changed. Consequent…
This book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It argues that with mainstream Hindi cinema becoming 'Bollywood' and the diaspora becoming a key commercial factor, the constituency addressed by the mainstream Hindi film has significantly changed. Consequent…
Bringing out the transformation of the mainstream Hindi film after it became 'Bollywood', this book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It is devoted to analyses of important Hindi films in the new millennium and focuses on overt and covert political disc…
The Hindi film industry has come to represent 'India' in the world today. Drawing from this 'globalization' of 'Bollywood' this book is a contemporary take on Indian cinema as represented by Hindi films.
Seduced by the Familiar is a study of the thematic continuities, myths, archetypes, and formal structures of Indian popular cinema. A contemporary take on Indian cinema, the book analyses the legitimacy and enduring popularity of Hindi cinema vis-a-vis the history of the Indian …
The Hindi film industry has come to represent 'India' in the world today. Drawing from this 'globalization' of 'Bollywood', this book is a contemporary take on Indian cinema as represented by Hindi films.
The Hindi film industry has come to represent 'India' in the world today. Drawing from this 'globalization' of 'Bollywood', Seduced by the Familiar is a contemporary take on Indian cinema as represented by Hindi films. The author, M.K. Raghavendra, an award-winning film critic a…
The Hindi film industry has come to represent 'India' in the world today. Drawing from this 'globalization' of 'Bollywood' this book is a contemporary take on Indian cinema as represented by Hindi films.
"Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator. It examines the sociocultural contexts intrinsic to cinema from milieus like the USSR/Russia, China, Japan, France, the US, …
Introduction: Between Meaning and Significance -- 1. The Engineered Look: The Film Festival Circuit and the Aesthetics of the Global Art Film -- 2. A Fallible Tradition: Kenji Mizoguchi and the Post-War Transformation of Japan -- 3. World and Text: Interpreting Jacques Rivette -…
"This book interrogates the vocabulary used in theorizing about Indian cinema to reach into the deeper cultural meanings of philosophies and traditions which it derives its influences from. It re-examines terms and concepts used in film criticism and contextualises them within t…
"This book interrogates the vocabulary used in theorizing about Indian cinema to reach into the deeper cultural meanings of philosophies and traditions which it derives its influences from. It re-examines terms and concepts used in film criticism and contextualises them within t…