Making Meaning in Indian Cinema

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Ravi Vasudevan
Oxford University Press, 2000 - Performing Arts - 317 pages
This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today to examine the phenomenon of popular Indian cinema from silent films to today's blockbusters. The articles explore the political implications of Indian popular cinema through formal and narrative analysis, archival resources and oral testimony, across a range of key films.

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Policing Silent Film Exhibition
39
Life and Times of a DMK Film
65
MELODRAMA AND THE PARADIGMS
97
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Ravi S.VasudevanFellowCentre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

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