The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History
By Jyotika Virdi.
Description
India produces more films than any other country in the world, and thesc works are avidly consumed by non-western cultures in africa, eastern europe, thc middle east, and by the indian communities in australia, britain, the caribbean islands, and north america jyotika virdi focuses on how this dominant medium configures the 'nation' in post-independence hindi cinema shc scrutinizes approximately thirty films that have appearcd since 1950 and demonstrates how concepts of the nation form thc center of this cinemas moral universe as a kind of storytelling, indian cinema provides a fa...
ISBN(s)
8178241862, 9788178241869
