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Ravi S. Vasudevan - Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema - 9780230247642 - V9780230247642
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Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema

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Description for Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema Hardback. What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan addresses these questions in a wide-ranging analysis of Indian cinema. Num Pages: 474 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 33. Weight in Grams: 712.
What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan addresses these questions in a wide-ranging analysis of Indian cinema.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
Number of Pages
457
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230247642
SKU
V9780230247642
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About Ravi S. Vasudevan
RAVI VASUDEVAN is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, and co-initiator of Sarai, the Centre's programme on media and urban research. He has taught Film Studies at universities in India and the USA, and held fellowships at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, the School of Oriental and African Studies and Princeton. His articles have been ... Read more

Reviews for Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema
"Here, finally, is the definitive and authoritative study of melodrama we have been hoping for. The Melodramatic Public is not only the most comprehensive book to redirect our understanding of Indian popular cinema, carefully tracing its manifold roots and conducting a painstaking archaeology of the genre, but Vasudevan also redraws the map. He proceeds from a genuinely global perspective, while ... Read more

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