| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The cinematic imagiNation [sic]/ Jyotika Virdi. |
| Reminder of title: |
Indian popular films as social history / |
| Author: |
Virdi, Jyotika, |
| Published: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :Rutgers University Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xvi, 258 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Nation and its discontents. The nation, in theory ; The creative ImagiNation ; Theorizing national cinema ; Nation and its embodiments ; Pleasure and terror of the feminine. -- The idealized woman. Fixing the figure of the woman ; Woman, community, nation ; The "social butterfly." -- Heroes and villains: narrating the nation. Masculinity ; Heroes and villains ; Sons and mothers. -- Heroines, romance, and social history. Reading resistance ; Contesting the Laxman Rekha ; Film/star text: reading social change. -- 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. -- Re-reading romance. Transgressions of "true love" ; Reinstating "family values" ; Romantic love and the culture of consumption ; The end of the Nehruvian Era. |
| Subject: |
Motion pictures - Social aspects - India. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=106802An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
081353528X (electronic bk.) |