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The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History
 
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The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History (Hardcover)

by Jyotika Virdi (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press (28 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 081353190X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0813531908
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.3 x 2.4 cm
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India produces more films than any other country in the world and these works are consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by the Indian communities across the world. This text focuses on how such a dominant media configures the "nation" in post-Independence Hindi cinema. The author scrutinizes approxiamtely 30 films that have appeared since 1950 and demonstrates how concepts of the nation centre this cinema's moral universe. As a form of storytelling, Indian cinema provides an account of social history and cultural politics, with the family deployed as a symbol of the nation. Virdi demonstrates how Hindi films' portrayal of the nation as a mythical community collapses under the weight of its own contradictions - irreconcilable differences that encompass gender, sexuality, family, class and religious communities.

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