Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Framing the Nation
Ajanta Sircar
€ 38.42
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Framing the Nation
Hardcover. Maps the distance that film theory has traveled in the Anglo-American academy and India in the past decades, inviting questions such as: How do we make sense of this new academic interest in popular Indian cinemas? How should we begin to understand Indian popular culture as a result? Num Pages: 172 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
As films like "Slumdog Millionaire" attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of film theory arrived in the Indian scholarly community, stirring a new fascination with popular cinema, especially that of Bombay, that went beyond previous Bollywood-oriented discussions focused on cinematic styles and genres alone. Ajanta Sircar's "Framing the Nation" grew out of that new engagement with cinema in India, a transition marked by a move from cinephilia to film theory. In "Framing the Nation", Sircar maps the distance that film theory has traveled ... Read more
As films like "Slumdog Millionaire" attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of film theory arrived in the Indian scholarly community, stirring a new fascination with popular cinema, especially that of Bombay, that went beyond previous Bollywood-oriented discussions focused on cinematic styles and genres alone. Ajanta Sircar's "Framing the Nation" grew out of that new engagement with cinema in India, a transition marked by a move from cinephilia to film theory. In "Framing the Nation", Sircar maps the distance that film theory has traveled ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906497309
SKU
V9781906497309
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Ajanta Sircar
Ajanta Sircar is a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla. She is also a graduate of the film studies program at the University of East Anglia.
Reviews for Framing the Nation
"Ajanta Sircar is a careful and meticulous thinker. She makes good use of sources and integrates quite difficult theory into her arguments in an exemplary fashion." - Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck College, University of London"