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The melodramatic public : film form and spectatorship in Indian cinema /

"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? The Melodramatic Public analyzes melodrama...

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Main Author: Vasudevan, Ravi
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2010.
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  • 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.