Making Meaning in Indian Cinema
Price: 695.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195658675
Publication date:
23/11/2001
Paperback
328 pages
216x140mm
Price: 695.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195658675
Publication date:
23/11/2001
Paperback
328 pages
Part of Oxford India Paperbacks
Ravi S. Vasudevan
This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today. By examining the silent films of the 1930s right through to contemporary blockbusters, their essays explore?through formal and narrative analysis, archival resources and oral testimony? the political and ideological implications of popular cinema.
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Ravi S. Vasudevan
Description
This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today. By examining the silent films of the 1930s right through to contemporary blockbusters, their essays explore-through formal and narrative analysis, archival resources and oral testimony- the political and ideological implications of popular cinema.
About the Author
Ravi S. Vasudevan is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and Co-Director of Sarai, the new media initiative. He has taught film studies at universities in India and the USA and is visiting faculty at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. He is also a well-known film critic.
Ravi S. Vasudevan
Review
?... this volume of essays is intellectually stimulating and impressive in its range of materials and approaches.?
?The Telegraph
Ravi S. Vasudevan
Description
This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today. By examining the silent films of the 1930s right through to contemporary blockbusters, their essays explore-through formal and narrative analysis, archival resources and oral testimony- the political and ideological implications of popular cinema.
About the Author
Ravi S. Vasudevan is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and Co-Director of Sarai, the new media initiative. He has taught film studies at universities in India and the USA and is visiting faculty at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. He is also a well-known film critic.


