2002, ISBN: 019565806X

Oxford University Press CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Paperback ~ Condition: NEW ~ Now available in paper back edition, this collection of essays aims to create a sharper awareness of popula… More...

Oxford University Press CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Paperback ~ Condition: NEW ~ Now available in paper back edition, this collection of essays aims to create a sharper awareness of popular Indian films as a possible source for an alternative, non-formal frame of political and social analysis.The emphasis is not on film theory or the aesthetics of popular cinema, but on the larger politics of culture as it is epitomized in popular films. It self-consciously disengages itself from conventional film theory and regular models of cultural studies to rethink cinema as a form of shared tacit political knowledge. For Ashish Nandy, the metaphor for Indian popular cinema is the urban slum; he argues that popular cinema is the slum's point of view of Indian politics and society. Ziauddin Sardar's and Rajni Bakshi's essays are highly personalized narratives that they to capture the crises of Indian public life as reflected in the generational and stylistic changes in popular cinema. The other essays focus on what films say about the means available for ordinary citizens to intervene in Indian politics and urban life: the way the receiver of audio-visual messages creatively reshapes them for his or her own purposes the distinctive relationship of Tamil films with politics; and the absence in Indian cinema of any genuine outsider, either in the form of an alienated hero or a villain.This book is essential reading for social scientists and all those interested in the series study of films.REWIEWSDespite its academic sophistication, this book is easy reading, principally because of the authors obvious enjoyment of the subject.-BiblioAn insight into how local cinema can be subsurmed into global mass culture, a process that began with Sholay, where feudalism became an allly, communalism an undercurrent, and the objectification of women as passive creatures important element.-The Indian ExpressNandy sets out his agenda by stating that Indian popularà cinema has everything from classical to folk, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and from the terribly modern to the incorrigibly traditional.-The Hindustan Times265 pages ~ Isbn: 0 19565806X ~ language: English ~ Year: 2002 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Contents ASHIS NANDYIntroductionIndian Popular Cinema as a Slum's Eye View of politicsZIAUDDIN SARDARDilip Kumar made me do itRAJNI BAKSHIRaj Kapoor:From Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai to Ram Teri Ganga MailiFAREEDUDDIN KAZMIHow angry is the Angry Young Man?Rebellion in Conventional Hindi FilmsANJALI MONTEIROOfficial Television and unofficial fabrications of the self: The Spectator as SubjectK RAVI SRINIVAS AND SUNDAR KAALIOn Castes and Comedians: The language of power in recent Tamil CinemaVINAY LALThe impossibility of the outsider in the modern Hindi film ISBN: 019565806X ~ language: English ~ Year: 2002 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Contents ASHIS NANDYIntroductionIndian Popular Cinema as a Slum's Eye View of politicsZIAUDDIN SARDARDilip Kumar made me do itRAJNI BAKSHIRaj Kapoor:From Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai to Ram Teri Ganga MailiFAREEDUDDIN KAZMIHow angry is the Angry Young Man?Rebellion in Conventional Hindi FilmsANJALI MONTEIROOfficial Television and unofficial fabrications of the self: The Spectator as SubjectK RAVI SRINIVAS AND SUNDAR KAALIOn Castes and Comedians: The language of power in recent Tamil CinemaVINAY LALThe impossibility of the outsider in the modern Hindi film, Oxford University Press<

2002, ISBN: 019565806X

Oxford University Press CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Paperback ~ Condition: NEW ~ Now available in paper back edition, this collection of essays aims to create a sharper awareness of popula… More...

Oxford University Press CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Paperback ~ Condition: NEW ~ Now available in paper back edition, this collection of essays aims to create a sharper awareness of popular Indian films as a possible source for an alternative, non-formal frame of political and social analysis.The emphasis is not on film theory or the aesthetics of popular cinema, but on the larger politics of culture as it is epitomized in popular films. It self-consciously disengages itself from conventional film theory and regular models of cultural studies to rethink cinema as a form of shared tacit political knowledge. For Ashish Nandy, the metaphor for Indian popular cinema is the urban slum; he argues that popular cinema is the slum's point of view of Indian politics and society. Ziauddin Sardar's and Rajni Bakshi's essays are highly personalized narratives that they to capture the crises of Indian public life as reflected in the generational and stylistic changes in popular cinema. The other essays focus on what films say about the means available for ordinary citizens to intervene in Indian politics and urban life: the way the receiver of audio-visual messages creatively reshapes them for his or her own purposes the distinctive relationship of Tamil films with politics; and the absence in Indian cinema of any genuine outsider, either in the form of an alienated hero or a villain.This book is essential reading for social scientists and all those interested in the series study of films.REWIEWSDespite its academic sophistication, this book is easy reading, principally because of the authors obvious enjoyment of the subject.-BiblioAn insight into how local cinema can be subsurmed into global mass culture, a process that began with Sholay, where feudalism became an allly, communalism an undercurrent, and the objectification of women as passive creatures important element.-The Indian ExpressNandy sets out his agenda by stating that Indian popularà cinema has everything from classical to folk, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and from the terribly modern to the incorrigibly traditional.-The Hindustan Times265 pages ~ Isbn: 0 19565806X ~ language: English ~ Year: 2002 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Contents ASHIS NANDYIntroductionIndian Popular Cinema as a Slum's Eye View of politicsZIAUDDIN SARDARDilip Kumar made me do itRAJNI BAKSHIRaj Kapoor:From Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai to Ram Teri Ganga MailiFAREEDUDDIN KAZMIHow angry is the Angry Young Man?Rebellion in Conventional Hindi FilmsANJALI MONTEIROOfficial Television and unofficial fabrications of the self: The Spectator as SubjectK RAVI SRINIVAS AND SUNDAR KAALIOn Castes and Comedians: The language of power in recent Tamil CinemaVINAY LALThe impossibility of the outsider in the modern Hindi film ISBN: 019565806X ~ language: English ~ Year: 2002 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Contents ASHIS NANDYIntroductionIndian Popular Cinema as a Slum's Eye View of politicsZIAUDDIN SARDARDilip Kumar made me do itRAJNI BAKSHIRaj Kapoor:From Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai to Ram Teri Ganga MailiFAREEDUDDIN KAZMIHow angry is the Angry Young Man?Rebellion in Conventional Hindi FilmsANJALI MONTEIROOfficial Television and unofficial fabrications of the self: The Spectator as SubjectK RAVI SRINIVAS AND SUNDAR KAALIOn Castes and Comedians: The language of power in recent Tamil CinemaVINAY LALThe impossibility of the outsider in the modern Hindi film, Oxford University Press<

2001, ISBN: 019565806X

[EAN: 9780195658064], [PU: Oxford University 2001, pbk], 71508, This collection of essays considers the complex relationship of cinema to the political process in addition to its social r… More...

[EAN: 9780195658064], [PU: Oxford University 2001, pbk], 71508, This collection of essays considers the complex relationship of cinema to the political process in addition to its social role and significance It aims to create a sharper awareness of popular films as a possible source for an alternative non formal frame of political and social awareness Indian popular cinema is an area of current interest Nandy is a celebrated social scientist whose books sell well The hardback edition got good reviews<