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008 120508s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780415698672 (hardback)
020 $a9780203084175 (ebook)
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050 00 $aPN1993.5.I8$bB424 2012
082 04 $a791.430954$223
084 $aSOC008000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBhattacharya, Nandini.
245 10 $aHindi cinema :$brepeating the subject /$cNandini Bhattacharya.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2012.
263 $a1210
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aIntersections : colonial and postcolonial histories ;$v7
520 $a"Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.The book looks at how cinema presents liminal and counter-modern identities emerging within repeated modern attempts to re-enact traumatic national events so as to redeem the past and restore a normative structure to happenings. Establishing structure and event as paradigmatic poles of a historical and anthropological spectrum for the individual in society, the book goes on to discuss cinematic portrayals of violence, gender embodiment, religion, economic transformations and new globalised Indianness as events and sites of liminality disrupting structural aspirations. After revealing the impossibility of accurate representation of incommensurable and liminal subjects within the historiography of the nation-state, the book highlights how Hindi cinema as an ongoing engagement with the nation-state as a site of eventfulness draws attention to the problematic nature of the thematic of nation. It is a useful study for academics of Film Studies and South Asian Culture"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India. The book looks at how cinema presents liminal and counter-modern identities emerging within repeated modern attempts to re-enact traumatic national events so as to redeem the past and restore a normative structure to happenings. Establishing structure and event as paradigmatic poles of a historical and anthropological spectrum for the individual in society, the book goes on to discuss cinematic portrayals of violence, gender embodiment, religion, economic transformations and new globalised Indianness as events and sites of liminality disrupting structural aspirations. After revealing the impossibility of accurate representation of incommensurable and liminal subjects within the historiography of the nation-state, the book highlights how Hindi cinema as an ongoing engagement with the nation-state as a site of eventfulness draws attention to the problematic nature of the thematic of nation. It is a useful study for academics of Film Studies and South Asian Culture"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aMotion pictures, Hindi$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.$2bisacsh