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The cinematic imagiNation : Indian popular films as social history / Jyotika Virdi.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.I8 V57 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Virdi, Jyotika, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--India.
- Motion pictures.
- India.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--India.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Nation and Its Discontents 26
- The Nation, in Theory
- The Creative ImagiNation
- Theorizing National Cinema
- Nation and Its Embodiments
- Pleasure and Terror of the Feminine
- Chapter 2 The Idealized Woman 60
- Fixing the Figure of the Woman
- Woman, Community, Nation
- The "Social Butterfly."
- Chapter 3 Heroes and Villains: Narrating the Nation 87
- Masculinity
- Heroes and Villains
- Sons and Mothers
- Chapter 4 Heroines, Romance, and Social History 121
- Reading Resistance
- Contesting the Laxman Rekha
- Film/Star Text: Reading Social Change
- Chapter 5 The Sexed Body 145
- Filmic Love
- Victims to Vigilantes
- Rape and the Rape Threat
- The Sexed Body and Specular Pleasure
- Double-Speak about the Body
- Unsettled Scores
- Chapter 6 Re-reading Romance 178
- Transgressions of "True Love."
- Reinstating "Family Values."
- Romantic Love and the Culture of Consumption
- The End of the Nehruvian Era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 081353190X
- 0813531918
- OCLC:
- 49327016
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