TY - BOOK AU - Prasad,M.Madhava TI - Ideology of the Hindi film: a historical construction SN - 0195652959. PY - 1998/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Motion pictures KW - Social aspects KW - India N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -