Ideology of the Hindi film : a historical construction / M. Madhava Prasad.
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TextPublisher: New Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 1998Description: 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-247) and index
Introduction: The Ideology of formal subsumption -- The economics of ideology: popular film form and mode of production -- The absolutist gaze: political structure and cultural form -- Guardians of the view: the prohibition of the private -- The moment of diasggregation -- The aesthetic of mobilization -- Middle-class cinema -- The development aesthetic -- Towards real subsumption?: signs of ideological reform in two recent films.
This book highlights distinctive features of the narrative forms of Hindi cinema and explores the economic, historical and cultural reasons for these
With reference to India