Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the "popular" in Indian cinema, M.K. Raghavendra undertakes, in this book, a chronological study of films to speculate on narrative conventions, thematic continuities, myths, archetypes, and other formal structures that inform it from its hesitant beginnings up to the 1990s. A significant contribution to film studies, the book makes crucial connections between film motifs and other aspects of culture, exploring the development of film narrative using the social history of India as a continuing frame of reference.
| ISBN: | 9780199456307 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2014 |
| Author: | M K Raghavendra |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP India |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 376 pages |
| Series: | Oxford India Paperbacks |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism Cultural studies |
Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the "popular" in Indian cinema, M.K. Raghavendra undertakes, in this book, a chronological study of films to speculate on narrative conventions, thematic continuities, myths, archetypes, and other formal structures that inform it from its hesitant beginnings up to the 1990s. A significant contribution to film studies, the book makes crucial connections between film motifs and other aspects of culture, exploring the development of film narrative using the social history of India as a continuing frame of reference.
Seduced by the Familiar features in the following genres: Film history, theory or criticism, Cultural studies
Seduced by the Familiar is available in Paperback
Seduced by the Familiar was written by M K Raghavendra and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP India
Seduced by the Familiar has 376 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford India Paperbacks series