Seduced by the Familiar

Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Art Technique, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: M.K. Raghavendra ISBN: 9780199087983
Publisher: OUP India Publication: December 15, 2014
Imprint: OUP India Language: English
Author: M.K. Raghavendra
ISBN: 9780199087983
Publisher: OUP India
Publication: December 15, 2014
Imprint: OUP India
Language: English

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.

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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.

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