{"product_id":"the-cinematic-imagination-indian-popular-films-as-social-history-9780813531915","title":"The Cinematic ImagiNation  Indian Popular Films as Social History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia produces more films than any other country and these works are consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by Indian communities across the world. This text focuses on how such a dominant media configures the \"\"nation\"\" in post-Independence Hindi cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes an important contribution to the field of Asian film criticism, Indian film history, cultural studies, and gender studies. \u003ci\u003eThe Cinematic ImagiNation \u003c\/i\u003eprovides readers with valuable insight into the relationships between nation-building gender, sexuality, the family, and popular cinema, using post-Independence India as a case study.  -- Gina Marchetti * author of the Romance and the \"Yellow Peril\": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Film *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNation and its discontents. The nation, in theory ; The creative ImagiNation ; Theorizing national cinema ; Nation and its embodiments ; Pleasure and terror of the feminine\u003cbr\u003e The idealized woman. Fixing the figure of the woman ; Woman, community, nation ; The \"social butterfly.\"\u003cbr\u003e Heroes and villains: narrating the nation. Masculinity ; Heroes and villains ; Sons and mothers\u003cbr\u003e Heroines, romance, and social history. Reading resistance ; Contesting the Laxman Rekha ; Film\/star text: reading social change\u003cbr\u003e The sexed body. Filmic love ; Victims to vigilantes ; Rape and the rape threat ; The sexed body and specular pleasure ; Double-speak about the body ; Unsettled scores\u003cbr\u003e Re-reading romance. Transgressions of \"true love\" ; Reinstating \"family values\" ; Romantic love and the culture of consumption ; The end of the Nehruvian Era","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742322819415,"sku":"9780813531915","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813531915.jpg?v=1758384274","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cinematic-imagination-indian-popular-films-as-social-history-9780813531915","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}