Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction 019564218X, 9780195642186

Seminal book in Indian Film Studies.

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English Pages 140 Year 1998

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Table of contents :
Contents

1. Introduction: The Ideology of Formal Subsumption 1

PART I
2. The Economics of Ideology: Popular Film Form and Mode of Production 29
3. The Absolutist Gaze: Political Structure and Cultural Form 52
4. Guardians of the View: The prohibition of the Private 88

PART II
5. The Moment of Disaggregation 117
6. The Aesthetic of Mobilization 138
7. Middle-Class Cinema 160
8. The Developmental Aesthetic 188
9. Towards Real Subsumption?: Signs of Ideological Reform in Two Recent Films 217

Bibliography 238

Index 249
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