What role has Indian cinema played in the history of Indian cultural and political transformations? How have Indian films addressed notions of nationhood, ideas about nation and region, matters of social difference, and conflicts over caste and religion? What cultural visions can be traced through the history of Indian cinema, and how have their co-ordinates changed? What new vistas have emerged of national territory, new lifestyles, and urban cultures as India ...
The Melodramatic Public: Film form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema
Book Title: Pt. 1. Melodramatic and other publics Pt. 2. Cinema and territorial imagination in the subcontinent: Tamilnadu and India Pt. 3. Melodrama mutated and differentiated: narrative form, urban vistas, and new publics in a history of the present.
