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Author Virdi, Jyotika, 1962-

Title The cinematic imagiNation [sic] : Indian popular films as social history / Jyotika Virdi
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages) : illustrations
Contents Nation and its discontents. The nation, in theory ; The creative ImagiNation ; Theorizing national cinema ; Nation and its embodiments ; Pleasure and terror of the feminine. -- The idealized woman. Fixing the figure of the woman ; Woman, community, nation ; The "social butterfly." -- Heroes and villains: narrating the nation. Masculinity ; Heroes and villains ; Sons and mothers. -- Heroines, romance, and social history. Reading resistance ; Contesting the Laxman Rekha ; Film/star text: reading social change. -- The sexed body. Filmic love ; Victims to vigilantes ; Rape and the rape threat ; The sexed body and specular pleasure ; Double-speak about the body ; Unsettled scores. -- Re-reading romance. Transgressions of "true love" ; Reinstating "family values" ; Romantic love and the culture of consumption ; The end of the Nehruvian Era
Analysis Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Motion pictures -- India.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- India
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Film
Filmkunst.
Films.
Sociale aspecten.
Nation -- Motiv -- Film -- Indien.
Film -- Gesellschaft -- Indien -- Geschichte 1947-2000.
Film -- Gesellschaft -- Indien -- Geschichte.
Film -- Motiv -- Nation -- Indien.
Film -- Sozialgeschichte -- Indien -- 1950-2002.
India
Indien
Indien -- Film -- Sozialgeschichte -- 1950-2002.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 081353528X
9780813535289
9780813571096
081357109X