Seduced by the Familiar
Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 27 November 2008
- ISBN 9780195696547
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages382 pages
- Size 222x145x25 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 colour plates 0
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Short description:
Seduced by the Familiar is a study of the thematic continuities, myths, archetypes, and formal structures of Indian popular cinema. A contemporary take on Indian cinema, the book analyses the legitimacy and enduring popularity of Hindi cinema vis-a-vis the history of the Indian nation.
MoreLong description:
The Hindi film industry has come to represent 'India' in the world today. Drawing from this 'globalization' of 'Bollywood', Seduced by the Familiar is a contemporary take on Indian cinema as represented by Hindi films. The author, M.K. Raghavendra, an award-winning film critic and scholar, makes a case for the 'surface' reading of Hindi films, in contrast to the rather disparaging view that critics, and sometimes practitioners, have traditionally taken of
'popular' cinema.
The book traces the main themes of Hindi cinema chronologically from before 1947 up to contemporary times. Beginning with 'primitive cinema' such as Raja Harishchandra (1913), Raghavendra traces the trajectory of Hindi cinema from Baazi (1951) to Mother India (1957), Yaadon ki Baarat (1973), Sholay (1975), Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak(1988), and Hum Aapke Hain Koun!(1994), right on till the recent Kabhi Alvida na Kehna (2006). He studies the
thematic continuities, myths, archetypes, and formal structures of this body of cinema and analyses the legitimacy and enduring popularity of Hindi cinema vis-a-vis the history of the Indian nation.
In addition, Seducing the Familiar includes an Introduction specifying the book's theoretical underpinnings, and a detailed chapter on narrative forms and conventions in Hindi cinema such as melodrama. Providing a lucid and sympathetic view of Hindi 'popular' cinema, Seducing the Familiar is an accessible study that will interest students and researchers of cultural and film studies, sociology, and history, as well as general readers interested in the phenomenon of
'Bollywood'.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Narrative Convention and Form
Indian Cinema before 1947: In Search of a Definition
The First Years of Independence: Birth of a Nation
The Fifties and the Sixties: The Idea of 'India'
The Seventies: Crosscurrents
The Furious Eighties: Undermining the Nation State
Towards the New Millennium: The End of Conflict
A Conclusion
