Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema
Description
Seduced by the Familiar looks at contemporary social history from the perspective of popular Indian cinema. M.K. Raghavendra interprets a wide range of films - including Sant Tukaram (1936), Baazi (1951), Sangam (1964), Sholay (1975), Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! (1994), and the recent Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (2006) - in the context of events like colonial rule, Independence, the Indo-Chinese War, the political conduct of Indira Gandhi, and the economic liberalization initiated in the 1990s. Locating his approach within the body of scholarship on the subject, Raghavendra creates the basis for a ne...
ISBN(s)
0199456305, 9780199456307
