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The secret politics of our desires : innocence, culpability, and Indian popular cinema
- Title
- The secret politics of our desires : innocence, culpability, and Indian popular cinema / edited by Ashis Nandy.
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY, USA : Zed Books ; New York NY, USA : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, ©1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Nandy, Ashis.
- Description
- ix, 259 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- This book examines the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema. It provokes a thinking of cinema as political in the widest sense - from its importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to class and gender.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Filmographies.
- Contents
- Introduction: Indian popular cinema as a slum's eye view of politics / Ashis Nandy -- Dilip Kumar made me do it / Ziauddin Sardar -- Raj Kapoor: from Jis desh mein ganga behti hai to Ram teri ganga maili / Rajni Bakshi -- How angry is the angry young man? 'rebellion' in conventional Hindi films / Fareeduddin Kazmi -- Official television and unofficial fabrications of the self: the spectator as subject / Anjali Monteiro -- On castes and comedians: the language of power in recent Tamil cinema / K. Ravi Srinivas and Sundar Kaali -- The impossibility of the outsider in the modern Hindi film / Vinay Lal.
- ISBN
- 1856495159
- 9781856495158
- 1856495167
- 9781856495165
- LCCN
- 97024677
- OCLC
- ocm37116135
- 37116135
- SCSB-14252761
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library