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 chrological 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.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0199456305
ISBN-13
9780199456307
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212553090
Product Key Features
Author
M. K. Raghavendra
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Film, TV & Radio
Type
Textbook
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Place of Publication
Oxford
Series Title
Oxford India Paperbacks
Content Note
6 B/w Photographs
Author Biography
M.K. Raghavendra is a film critic, researcher, and scholar. He was the recipient of the National Film Award for the Best Film Critic, The Swarna Kamal in 1997.