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The Cinematic ImagiNation: Indian Popular Films as Social History
by Jyotika Virdi
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New. 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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- The Cinematic ImagiNation: Indian Popular Films as Social History
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- Jyotika Virdi
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- 0813531918
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- Rutgers University Press
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- New Brunswick
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- April 2003
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