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The Secret Politics of Our Desires Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema

Hardcover • 1998 • English • 1. edition

The Secret Politics of Our Desires Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema

By Ashis Nandy

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About the book

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 me...Show more

Cultural and media studies
Social and ethical issues
Social groups, communities and identities

Book details

ISBN

9780195639360

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Secret Politics of Our Desires Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema

Format

Hardcover

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