The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema - Couverture souple

 
9781856495165: The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema
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ISBN 10 : 1856495167 ISBN 13 : 9781856495165
Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This book deals with an important and too-often ignored area of cultural studies. To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its very rawest. The questions and perspectives this book presents provoke a thinking of cinema that is political in the widest sense – from cinemas importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to psycho-social perspectives on identity, class and gender.

The contributors deal with a range of themes from the metaphor of the slum as a defining cultural phenomenon to personal reflections on the political meanings and strategies of South Asian film, from Tamil blockbusters to the intrinsic ineffectivity of TV as a propagator of state ideology. Whilst the book is essential reading for students and academics of film, media and of South Asian studies. It will also fascinate anyone with an interest in the genuinely global phenomenon of South Asian cinema.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, a social theorist, and a contemporary cultural and political critic. A trained sociologist and clinical psychologist, his body of work covers a variety of topics, including public conscience, mass violence, and dialogues of civilizations.

He was Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years. Today, he is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the institute and apart from being the Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, also in New Delhi.

Appearing on the list of the 2008 list of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll, Nandy had received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007. In 2008 he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by Foreign Policy magazine.

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Éditeur
Zed Books Ltd
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1856495167
ISBN 13 
9781856495165
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
240
Éditeur
Nandy Ashis
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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gpsr@libri.de

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